Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 10:16:44 +0100 From: Franklin Eekhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Serious boot problem - Help needed!
Hi all,
Re MBR etc look at MBRWORK, I have often messed up stuff with PM & DI, and MBR is a nice utility to have.
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/utilities.html
The complete README:
MBRWork - Freeware utility to perform some common and uncommon MBR
and disk functions. Provided As-Is.It can perform the following:
1 - Backup the first track on a hard drive.
2 - Restore the backup file.
3 - Reset the EMBR area to all zeros.
4 - Reset the MBR are to all zeros.
5 - Install standard MBR Code
6 - Set a partition active (avail on the command line too)
7 - Work with multiple hard drives.
8 - Remove EZ-Drive (You must boot directly to a diskette (by passing ez-drive)
for this option to show)
9 - Edit MBR partition entry values.
A - If no partitions exist in the MBR and no EMBR exists then this option
will allow you to recover lost FAT, HPFS, NTFS, and Extened partitions.C - Capture up to 64 disk sectors to a file.
R - Restore up to 64 disk sectors from a file. This feature should only
be used by those who completely understand what they are doing!T - Transfer/Copy sectors from disk to disk. This feature should only
be used by those who completely understand what they are doing!P - Compare sectors.
Be sure to visit www.terabyteunlimited.com for more great software! ---
I have used 9 and A a few times when being unsure of using PM...
They also have some other disk tools.
Another idea is to use a Linux Live CD, like Knoppix or whatever, and see what shows up. A live cd will not touch your disk, so it should not mess up things even more. Or a rescue floppy like http://www.toms.net/rb/ might be better on a Libby as one cannot boot from a cd-rom from BIOS. You would have to move the disk to a big iron to use Knoppix or similar live cd I guess.
Another idea is to get a similar harddisk, install EZ with the same info if you can remember it, and then copy/replace mbrs across harddisks.
Also, pen, paper and a calculator is nice to have nearby, I usually calculated stuff manually twice to be sure, and always made mbr-backups and disk/partition images to a large harddisk before doing anything. I prefer Ghost to PM or DI, as it could burn to cd-r directly, or move them over USB, parallell, or network. Lovely program. :-)
YMMV...
br Franklin
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