Many BIOS's have virus protection for the MBR that can be
turned off.  I usually turn it off and let my AV software
protect it.  It will prevent MBR to be written.

Doug

At 9/27/2002 01:12 PM, Pkreli Ela wrote:

I am trying to use Ranish Partition Manger to edit /
arrange partition records in a hard disk. Now I quite often
use this program to adjust partitions and etc.

But in this particular hard disk, the changes made by
Ranish Partition Manager are not being saved even though it
says changes were saved. When I restart the machine (and
the program), the changes made are not there.
...
What could prevent writing to MBR and partition table by
such 'powerful' utilities ? Ranish Partition Manager is my
favorite tool and had never failed to write changes to
MBR/partition table in other HDDs.

Could it be due to some BIOS setting or virus ?

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