A lot of dos users have used a boot floppy with the write tab locked. There are lots of multi-boot options that will fit on one. and if in dos, then it seems like the sabotage could not alter the system files without running something like FDISK. Likewise, I spoze you could put a boot on a CD ROM.
A lot of us have upgraded drives. but it that hard to use the old drive like a RAID, just to store personal data. To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
