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Thanks Richard - Richard Atcheson wrote:
On Sunday 25 July 2004 02:10 pm, David Johanson wrote:
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You are booting from a dos disk which has fdisk on it before you try the fdisk /mbr aren't you?
Absolutely
Also your dos/windows disk must be active. I would boot with the dos disk, do c: enter to see if you can look at your first drive and if you can then do the fdisk without the mbr switch to see which disk is active. From the dialog that is present you can select the drive you want to play with, make it active then do the mbr thing by closing fdisk and reboot with your dos disk, THEN do fdisk /mbr. It may be a little convoluted but that should restore the mbr on your first harddrive.
Amazing, just amazing. Since the beginning of my computer playing I've used ONLY SCSI drives in my systems. This mailbox marks the first time I've added an IDE drive into the system. Sooooo, I never ever even gave a moments thought to which drive's MBR I was trying to reset. Just as you've suggested, it wasn't Drive C: but rather drive K: which is the IDE data drive that was just added into the system. Live and learn, again.
Once you have that done, you can boot from the cd or dvd and do what the others have suggested.
Richard
Thanks again, dave -- David C. Johanson Linux Counter # 116410 Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 People who behold a phenomenon will often extend their thinking beyond it; people who merely hear about the phenomenon will not be moved to think at all. -- Goethe