> 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.
