Okay, this post is a little after-the-fact, but could still be useful to me down
the road. I have a dual boot machine and last week I happened to get nailed with a
virus while in Windows. Long story short, it did some damage but I got it out of my
system and had to re-install the Windows OS (I am running Win98, btw.)
The aggrivating thing was that once I did the re-install, Windows thoughtfully
overwrote the boot sector and I was not able to re-enter Linux. It effectively made
my machine single boot. My immediate response - re-install Linux to restore the
desired configuration. The only problem was that I ended up losing a lot of
information that I had on the Linux partition as the Storm installer did not allow
me to install without formatting the partitions to be used. (at least, I didn't see
any option to that effect.)
My system is back to normal (somewhat) but I was wondering - does anyone have a
bootable Linux floppy that could be used in this situation to rewrite a boot sector
to a dual-boot configuration? Or am I forced to re-install every time I have to
undo these Microsoft tamperings? I'm open to any discussion on methods to repair
this damage and avoid a system reinstall.
David K
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