On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 20:59:30 +0100
Thomas Buntrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I just replaced a win 98 with a win xp. xp overwrote the mbr, so i had
> grub reinstall it.
> 
> The problem is, that I used setup (hd0,0) instead of setup (hd0),
> write it in the boot partition instead of the mbr. linux is running on
> a hdb, so there is no effect.
> 
> Is there a way to restore the winXP boot sector without reinstalling
> xp? 

Boot with a Windows boot floppy.  From the command line, execute "fdisk /mbr", to 
write the master boot record to the hard disk without altering partition table 
information.
-- 
Barry Marler
Information Analyst II
Center for Applied Genetic Technologies
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 
USA

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