Semi-OT: Fixing my Windows MBR

Bill Mullen moon at lunarhub.com
Sun Feb 27 17:35:05 EST 2005


On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 17:12 (IOW, almost 12 hours in the future <G>),
Travis Roy wrote:
> So I had a dual boot win2k/linux box. I now have a seperate box for linux.
> 
> I wiped out the linux partition on the windows box and well.. I said 
> "oh, I'll fix the mbr later". Well, windows did an update over the night 
> and when it rebooted no MBR..
> 
> The PC doesn't have a floppy drive.
> 
> Does anybody know of a CD image with tools to fix this problem?

You might be able to fix this with the Win2K CD. I know that with XP's,
you can boot to the recovery console and run "fixmbr"; ISTR that you can
do the same with Win2k's CD ... maybe not, but it's worth a try.

-- 
Bill Mullen
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