On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 03:19:18PM -0500, Barry Marler wrote: > 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.
I don't have a winxp boot floppy, only a cdrom. Will a 98 disk do? However, that will only fix the mbr, what about the boot sector in the first partition? Thomas
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