In message , Mark Lloyd
writes:
On 2/11/19 9:30 PM, Paul wrote:

[snip]

Since the executables don't have access to the
physical layer on disk drives, commercial software
attempting to write license patterns in places they
shouldn't, are blocked.

I think that's what happened when I had a dual boot (Win and Linux on
the same disk). Some Windows program messed up the bootloader.

[snip]

Are you sure it wasn't some Linux program? [stir, stir ... (-:]
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