Semi-OT: Fixing my Windows MBR

[Bob Bell]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 05:12:07PM -0500, Travis Roy <travis at scootz.net> 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?

I'm not sure what you need off-hand, but if you find what you need
that's floppy-based, I (and I'm sure others) can give you instructions
on how to make a bootable CD from that image.

I was quite happy recently to be able to flash the BIOS on a new system
without touching neither a floppy nor Microsoft software.  A combination
of FreeDOS and Linux tools let be fairly simply put together a bootable
CD with the tools that needed.  It felt good to finally start leaving
floppy disks behind...

    -- Bob