Under MicrosoftWindows98, if I wanted to reinstate its loader in the MBR, I used fdisk /mbr to overwrite GRUB or LILO. I assume the MicrosoftWindowsXP equivalent is fixmbr - does anyone have experience of this? (A friend wants to reclaim all of his hard drive, instead of buying a new one.) -- Pob hwyl / Best wishes Kevin Donnelly www.kyfieithu.co.uk - Meddalwedd Rhydd yn Gymraeg www.cymrux.org.uk - Linux Cymraeg ar un CD!
Under MicrosoftWindows98, if I wanted to reinstate its loader in the MBR, I used fdisk /mbr to overwrite GRUB or LILO. I assume the MicrosoftWindowsXP equivalent is fixmbr - does anyone have experience of this? (A friend wants to reclaim all of his hard drive, instead of buying a new one.) Try the linux command:
On Tuesday 08 March 2005 8:51 am, Kevin Donnelly wrote: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 This assumes that the MBR is on the primary master. This is equivalent to the DOS fdisk /mbr -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
Kevin Donnelly wrote:
Under MicrosoftWindows98, if I wanted to reinstate its loader in the MBR, I used fdisk /mbr to overwrite GRUB or LILO. I assume the MicrosoftWindowsXP equivalent is fixmbr - does anyone have experience of this? IIRC, that is correct. It's been a while, but IIRC that is correct. You would need to boot from the XP CD, enter maintenance desktop, and run fixmbr. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871
On Tuesday 08 Mar 2005 14:13, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
IIRC, that is correct. It's been a while, but IIRC that is correct. You would need to boot from the XP CD, enter maintenance desktop, and run fixmbr.
Thanks - I'll experiment. -- Pob hwyl / Best wishes Kevin Donnelly www.kyfieithu.co.uk - Meddalwedd Rhydd yn Gymraeg www.cymrux.org.uk - Linux Cymraeg ar un CD!
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