[Wolves] Master Boot Record

Martyn Carey lists at kryogenix.co.uk
Tue Nov 23 18:15:04 GMT 2004


Boot off the windows (xp presumably may work with win2k)cd go into 
recovery mode console

type fixmbr
and there u go dude 1 doze mbr restored.

if you type /? this will give you alist of commands i think there is fix 
boot as well which restores boot files ntdlr etc.

Try it dude
Martyn

Rob Annable wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:08:19 +0000, Peter Cannon
> <peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>>On Tuesday 23 November 2004 14:58, Rob Annable wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:46:41 +0000, Kevanf1 <kevanf1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Try to get hold of the manufacturers disk tools software.  It's
>>>>usually on their website somewhere.  This will allow you to reset the
>>>>MBR and zero fill the drive. This effectively makes it as it came from
>>>>the factory.
>>
>>Seriuosly guys this aint hard make a Win98 boot floppy ( If you cant, email me
>>I'll put the files on our site so you can download them) plonk the floppy in,
>>boot the machine when you get the dos prompt do fdisk follow on screen
>>instructions delete all partitions do fdisk /mbr then (after 2 million
>>re-boots) do fdisk again and create a new dos partition (if you want one)
>>easy peasey lemon squeezy. :-)
>>
>>
> 
> 
> Seriously Peter, I believe you :) I shall try it again this evening. I
> made a half hearted attempt at this last night but will try it again
> before I do anything drastic. Like take a sledgehammer to my machine
> (which is seriously tempting since I've just blown the dust off my old
> Mac SE and I'm thinking about buying this:
> http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=5140426369
> ).
> 
> 
> Rob



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