Technical information

5.4 Partition Table Editor

Ptedit is a Free Portable Partition Table Editor created by Powerquest (Symantec). Ptedit32 can be

used to quickly and easily edit Partition Tables. For example it could be used to mark a partition active

"toggle the bootable flag" from within Windows. This is done by changing the boot indicator from 00 to

80. This tool can be stored and run from a USB device. You can download the Portable Partition Table

Editor HERE. Some technical details HERE or HERE (in French).

Note that on Windows 7 and Windows 8 you need to run the “resolve compatibility problem” for the

program to work.

Another alternative is the Bootice program.

Related to this there is nice small utility called ptcalc that allows conversion between LBA and CHS.

See Tools and References for the MBR and OS Boot Records and Free Tools to Backup and Restore

the Master Boot Record (MBR)

5.5 PC File Transfer Tools

In order to use files and directories without problems on an Atari you should not use Long File Names.

A tool like Total Commander can be very useful to do that.

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