[Gllug] Recovering disk space

[John Winters]

Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> Chris Bell wrote:
>> I do not know about XP, but the standard cure-all for M$ used to be
>> fdisk \mbr (or it could be fdisk /mbr) to rebuild the standard M$ Master
>> Boot Record.
> 
> That _wipes_ the MBR, it doesn't rebuild it, and has no effect on 
> partitions.

It doesn't actually wipe the MBR - it installs a copy of the MS-DOS boot 
loader there, overwriting whatever was there before.  You are however 
correct in saying that it has no effect on partitions.

John
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