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BootAble – FreeDOS boot testing freeware
To obtain direct, low-level access to a system's mass storage drives, SpinRite runs under a GRC-customized version of FreeDOS which has been modified to add compatibility with all file systems. In order to run SpinRite it must first be possible to boot FreeDOS.
GRC's “BootAble” freeware allows anyone to easily create BIOS-bootable media in order to workout and confirm the details of getting a machine to boot FreeDOS through a BIOS. Once the means of doing that has been determined, the media created by SpinRite can be booted and run in the same way.
The participants here, who have taken the time to share their knowledge and experience, their successes and some frustrations with booting their computers into FreeDOS, have created a valuable knowledgebase which will benefit everyone who follows.
You may click on the image to the right to obtain your own copy of BootAble. Then use the knowledge and experience documented here to boot your computer(s) into FreeDOS. And please do not hesitate to ask questions – nowhere else can better answers be found.
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To start the process you need to go here first: https://www.grc.com/mail.htm
After entering and submitting your email you will very quickly receive an "authentication" email with a l.ink to the email management page.
You must click that link. That will take you to the email management page, completing your email verification. Then you can add a Personal name if you wish, and check either or both email list choices.
Just following up on this old thread for the sake of resolving the mystery. (And thanks, @DanR, for pointing me to this.)
External email was not supposed to ever see that. And it's resolved now. It was an experiment I was doing to "tag" incoming email with that subject when our email server's own email verifier (SPF, DKIM, DMARC and such) was unhappy with a sender's email server. So it never had anything to do with our subscription system, and I had warned Greg and Sue (my guys at this end) to simply ignore any of those tags if they saw them.
It wound up not being very useful, and it was confusing people, so I turned it off some time ago.
Sorry for the confusion!
