> For many years I happily used Pagett Peterson's Disksecure II to protect
> the Master Boot Record (MBR) of my disk from boot/stealth viruses. I am
> now considering updating my partition table to FAT-32 to save space, and
> eliminate the work of managing several different (logical) drive letters.

> I suspect Disksecure will only work on FAT-16, since it needs to find the
> beginning and end of the MBR. I would be happy to discover it also works
> for FAT-32. Anyone know?

> If not, is there some analogous software to protect the MBR that includes
> a partition table with FAT-32 partitions - one that stops/catches viruses
> before the OS is booted?

> Thanks in Advance,

> Howard

I am not familiar with Disksecure, have no such MBR virus protector.  MBR itself
is only 512 bytes, or is it 2048?  As far as I know, the difference between
FAT-16 and FAT-32 is for finding files within the partition.  Basic MBR and
partition table structure would be the same.  This is an educated guess on my
part.

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