Others have already addressed the master boot record and GoBack.  I don't
use GoBack regularly, but if I am recalling my bit of experience with this
program correctly, I think that it alse creates a hidden partition for it's
use.  FDisk can't see this partition, as it doesn't recognize it, but other
programs, such as Partition Magic will show it.  In any case, this is why
you must uninstall GoBack before going through a reformat/reinstall process.
Otherwise your drive manufacturers "low format" or "write zeros" utility
will effectively remove all partitions so you can start over with FDisk
(again, as others have suggested).

John

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Doll" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 9:43 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] F DISK


> I have run f disk quite a few times.however Ive seemed to have run into a
problem.
>  I use Go Back, which I think is a great program .However when I ran f
disk it wouldn't take this program out.I would run f disk and reformat ,
then reinstall windows from the  recovery cd that came with my Hewlett
Packard computer.After the install, Goback would still be there.I didnt
think much about this , until I got a virus( cant rem the name ). I was told
this virus attacked programs like Go Back.

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