----- Original Message ----- From: "Brent Hawkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 8:34 PM Subject: Re: [Re: [expert] Invalid Partition Table - How To Fix?] Thanks for writing back. I just went and wiped out the whole drive and I'm reinstalling W98 for the wife. That W98 reminds me of how much I hate MS Warez every step of the freakin' way. How did we ever buy into that crap for so long??!!?? Ok, I'm calming down... and the linux partitions are just for trying out new distros. Nothing crucial. Now that you have the partition table fixed, dd of a copy to save to a floppy for safekeeping. To save the MBR (boot loader and partition table) to a file, type the following: dd if=/dev/hdx of=mbrhdx bs=512 count=1 where x is replaced by a, b, c, or d indicating the particular particular drive. The files created should be saved on a floppy disk; there may even be room on your boot disk. Just remember that only /dev/hda will have a boot loader; other drives will only have partition info in the MBR. To restore the partition table and boot loader, type: dd if=mbrhdx of=/dev/hdx Hoyt
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