"Brian Tillman" wrote in message
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Gordon wrote:

Umm AFAIK "boot block" is a piece of code in the BIOS (which is
resident on the Motherboard NOT the HDD) and so is not affected by
reformatting anyway...

Not true. The book block is an area on the disk itself

This page says not:
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/mbsys/bios/compBoot-c.html