Bryan,
Thanks for the advice, seriously. I did not appreciate there was a
big difference. Most of the time I use grub, so it does not come up.
Greg
On 6/15/06, Bryan J. Smith
On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 14:05 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
To get my machine usable for some other work, I booted a DOS floppy and did a "fdisk /mbr". I'm now able to boot the Win2K partition again.
*NEVER* use a DOS disk and "fdisk /mbr" to re-install the MBR for NT5+ (2000+).
*ALWAYS* use the NT5+ (2000+) CD or diskset and run "fixmbr" instead.
Sorry, don't mean to be so "forceful" on that one. But you'd fare better than what I'd normally do if I was your lead. .e., I've smacked many Windows administrators with keyboard for that. ;->
The disk organization for NT5+ (2000+) -- the MBR, bootstrap and "hidden" areas are _radically_different_ than DOS. It's a great way to _totally_corrupt_ the beginning of the disk and render the C: drive unusable or only partially recoverable.
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