COMBINING BOOTHRU AND CFORMAT

BOOTHRU is a public domain program by Bill Gibson which modifies the
boot sector on a floppy disk so that a boot will always fall through
to the hard disk even with the floppy in the A drive.  The latest
version (now compatible with DOS 3.2) is available in a file called
BT105.ARC.

CFORMAT is a shareware program by Chris Patterson for rapid formatting
of floppies using 1 or 2 drives.  It is available on BBS's as
C-FORMAT.ARC.

It is possible to combine the effects of these two programs so that
CFORMAT can be used to format a Boothru disk in one step.

 - First format a floppy using DOS format and use BT.COM to make it a
   boothru disk.

 - With the floppy still in A, reboot to make sure it's working--you
   should see a message on the screen that the floppy has been
   modified by Boothru and the computer should then boot from your
   hard disk.

 - Now, with the same floppy in A, run CFORMAT with the C option.  If
   this is the first time you have used CFORMAT, enter C-FORMAT C --
   otherwise you enter CFORMAT C.

 - You will now have a version of CFORMAT.COM which will format a
   boothru disk!  Try it.  Run CFORMAT and format a different floppy.
   Reboot with this new floppy in drive A.  You should see Boothru's
   message and then be booted from the hard disk.

HOW IT WORKS

Boothru, as mentioned above, modifies the boot sector on the floppy so
that it tells the computer to boot from the hard disk.  When you first
configure CFORMAT (using the C option), it reads a copy of the boot
sector from your floppy for subsequent use in formatting disks.  When
you configure CFORMAT using a boothru disk, the boothru boot sector is
read and used for all subsequent formats!


Wayne King
30 Sickles St. #3F
New York,  NY 10040