This procedure will make all partitions on physical drive 0 (e.g.: the IDE Primary Master drive) as Non-Active using DOS's DEBUG.EXE.
I recommend that you use a DOS or Windows 95 Boot
disk that has the minimum files on it:
The BOOT files of course.
DEBUG.EXE
FDISK.EXE
FORMAT.COM
SYS.COM
Here is the step by step method to follow:
Run DEBUG.EXE and at the debug prompts type in the commands and press ENTER.Prompt (what you see) Note: The first part of the code displaced may be different (1A4C)but the information after the colon should be the same(0100). |
Command (what you type) |
- | A100 |
1A4C:0100 | MOV AX,0201 |
1A4C:0103 | MOV BX,0200 |
1A4C:0106 | MOV CX,0001 |
1A4C:0109 | MOV DX,0080 |
1A4C:010C | INT 13 |
1A4C:010E | MOV BYTE PTR [03BE],00 |
1A4C:0113 | MOV BYTE PTR [03CE],00 |
1A4C:0118 | MOV BYTE PTR [03DE],00 |
1A4C:011D | MOV BYTE PTR [03EE],00 |
1A4C:0122 | MOV AX,0301 |
1A4C:0125 | MOV BX,0200 |
1A4C:0128 | MOV CX,0001 |
1A4C:012B | MOV DX,0080 |
1A4C:012E | INT 13 |
1A4C:0130 | INT 3 |
1A4C:0131 | [Press Enter] |
- | G |
AX=0000
BX=0200 CX=0000 DX=0080 SP=FFEE BP=0000 SI=0000 DI=0000 DS=1A30 ES=1A30 SS=1A30 CS=1A30 IP=0131 NV UP EI PL NZ NA PO NC 1A4C:0130 CCFF INT 3 - |
Q |
To automate the process of running the above DEBUG script I have created a diskette that will run the above script. Feel free to download the file N0-ACT.ZIP. Just be sure to read the README.TXT for instruction of how to setup it up and use it.