I should be doing my taxes right now so TIA: "Thanks, Fred"
Quick notes:
Diskcopy sounds almost useful, thx.
Debug dangerous? I had a similar mishap yesterday while
trying to find the command with the undocumented /mbr switch
(sub-problem: mbrs are only for HD's). Surprise, surprise, the
MasterBootRecord action is unprompting! There is no "Would
you like to fry your HardDrive? [y/n]" question, just the direct
action. Luckily my NortonAV caught it. Oddly the system wouldn't
warmboot afterwards. So, after getting all the pieces together for
a system re-build, including second harddrive, letting my blood
pressure go down, and cold booting, the problem was just smoke,
thankfully.
I'm doing all this to get a nice NEC laptop going.
Will probably get back to that in 3 days.
John A.