-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Hi :) > > I should rest a day, now I definitive make mistakes. > > Bad news for my USB device, might be good news for my IDE. Half asleep I > made a mistake, I might have done before. Maybe cfdisk wrote to the IDE > instead of writing to the USB stick and that's why the IDEs MBR and/or > EBR is broken ;). > > I'll google for the places in the MBR, were the pointers are pointing at > GRUB and the Windows boot loader. I will restore anything in the MBR, > excepted this two pointers, because I've got a backup of the MBR with > the wanted partition table, but without this pointers. Until now I had > bad luck with searching for this information.
I am guessing that you had GRUB controlling the boot? > > Okay, it's easy to rewrite GRUB, but I've no media to rewrite the > Windows boot loader. > > I'll also google if it's possible to get a 'start CD' for Windows XP, by > Windows XP, but I guess it's only possible to get a start disc. > I would use the same method you used to install Windows. Whether it was legal or not, you had to have install media to get Windows on to your computer. The MBR is only the first 446 bytes, the rest is the DOS partition table. If all that has happened is that you blew away the first 512 bytes, you could restore your original blank backups and then you should be able to reinstall GRUB. Grub should then chain load the Windows loader which should be unaffected (wikipedia has some more than decent articles on GRUB, and the Windows loader). Of course YMMV. Once Windows is running try formatting the USB key with it. If that does not work then consider the drive dead. Without actual access to the USB key I cannot say for certain, but Input Output errors indicate a physical failure. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJtm9XwRXgH3rKGfMRAohVAKCANF1SOemPC3P6Y+L+e27LDxQ2ugCfaG2S yuX27L5X+cYIguu35REfrdw= =k9Eb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
