Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 20:24:13 +0000 From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] HELP! I need a floppy drive!
>From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=B7TechnoDragon=B7?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >because the boot code is damaged, but the partition table is just fine. > I have to boot from some other device to fdisk /mbr it, or otherwise >fix teh boot sector. But I have no floppy for my libretto, it never came >with one. > I have even tried removign teh drive and installing it into my >desktop system, it reads just fine, but I cannot write to the boot sector >of the drive. It gives errors indicating that the electronics won't let me >write to it. I ran other tests and sector 0 is /not/ bad. > If anyone has a solution, please inform me immediately. Have you tried running FDISK /MBR from a floppy in the desktop, with the Lib HDD set up as the primary drive? Or booting from the FDD as A: and running FDISK /MBR from it? M. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
