as I under stand it fdisk /mbr will put back a copy of the MBR that was
written when _last_ _installed_ winders. I bet the only ones that REALLY know
are whomever the DDO was written by, what is the NAME of the DDO (diskmaster,
drive master, data lifeguard?)
On Monday 30 July 2001 13:57, Mike Davis wrote:
> I installed Mandrake (probably 7.2 although I can't quite remember now) a
> few months ago for Uni work on a secondary hard drive, running Win98 on the
> other. All was fine and dandy until I realised I a) never got it running
> properly ($%&* software modem) and b) hardly used it any more. In addition
> I needed the drive for other uses so I Fdisk-ed the lot. I am now taken
> into a grub shell on boot-up (where, incidentally, the 'quit' command
> doesn't work) although I can get into Windows from there. 'Ah', you're
> thinking, 'Fdisk /mbr is the answer'. Unfortunately I have a DDO (Dynamic
> Drive Overlay) Bios patch on the primary Windoze drive so I can actually
> use it and taking out the MBRs might (although I don't actually know this)
> cause me to lose absolutely everything :(.
>
> SO: Is it possible to take out Grub using (basically) the grub shell and/or
> DOS without removing the DDO?
> If not, can it be done from Linux?
> If so, I assume that reinstalling Mandrake from the original boot floppy
> and CDs (which I haven't got with me right now or I'd have probably already
> tried it...) will fix it temporarily?
> Finally, if I reinstall Windows on the primary drive would it re-write the
> MBRs
> and so wipe GRUB from existance? Any ideas?
>
> I think that's everything... :)
>
> Thank you.
>
> --
> That is All. <*>
>
> Mike Davis -> m.davis(at)ucl.ac.uk
