boot from a floppy - Win98, try this command fdisk /mbr
then try your luck.. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sharninder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 3:42 PM Subject: [LIH]dd command backfired > hi everyone, > i installed debian/winXP on a machine and later wanted to remove debian > from it. i removed the partition but lilo was still there. now 'smart me' > decided to remove lilo *the geek way* .. by using dd to copy boot record > from /dev/hda1 (WinXP) to /dev/hda (first sector of drive ??) and somehow > decided on giving this command ... > dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 .. i know this is wrong > because when i rebooted i could'nt load windows or lilo either... and then > when i used to debian boot CD ... and did a fdisk /dev/hda -> pto list the partitions ... it gave me all crap... i guess i just fried up > the partition table on the machine ...is there any way to recover the data from the machine or i'll have to > reformat and repartition the machine and loose all my MP3 collection :( :(please reply soon .. am desperately in need of a solution and ... no i > don't have any fdisk /* partition table info for my machine prior to > frying it up :( :( > cheers > sharninder > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > linux-india-help mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
