On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Thomas Charron wrote:
> There is another alternative. Reboot on a command line boot disk, and
> do this:
>
> fdisk /MBR
That will, as the name implies, fix the MBR -- the Master Boot Record,
which contains the partition table and generic boot code.
The original poster overwrote the PBR -- the Partition Boot Record, which
contains whatever the application (filesystem) wants it to contain. In the
cast of MS-DOS, that is the DOS bootstrap and the MS-DOS "media descriptor",
which includes vital information such as the number of FATs, the start of
the FATs, and the start of the root directory, along with less-important
details like the volume label and creator OS.
--
Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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