On Fri April 9 2004 18:26, Neil Chong-Kit wrote: > I'm not sure which version of windows you are using, but sometimes a copy > of the original MBR is stored in a different place on the hard disk by the > OS. > > If you want to restore windows booting, it's worth a shot. > > I've had cases where fdisk /mbr doesn't work, but restoring from the backed > up MBR does. You would first need to find where the backup is, and then use > a hard disk sector editing tool to copy it back. > > Anybody know a Linux floppy or ISO image to boot and run such a utility?
Any linux rescue disk with the 'dd' command. ;-) dd if=/mnt/rescue/mbr.dos of=/dev/hda count=1 bs=512 Here is some more information concerning 'fdisk /mbr': "FDISK /MBR Rewrites the Master Boot Record" http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q69/0/13.ASP&NoWebContent=1\ HTH, Curtis _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
