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Not connected to the AARD code, but the abominations that MS did to boot floppies in Win9x with volume tracker (or IHC code) is worth a mention:

https://www.os2museum.com/wp/the-ihc-damage/

https://jeffpar.github.io/kbarchive/kb/148/Q148637/

jdebp touches the matter on the page on (previous) messing up with bootsectors by MS-DOS:

http://jdebp.info/FGA/volume-boot-block-oem-name-field.html

(but those DOS ones were only about not trusting the BPB fields, not about corrupting the OEM field)




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