Re: [Sheflug] lost mbr

["Ian W. Wright" <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Fred,

Thanks, I didn't find mbrwork at bootdisk.com but I did find other useful
stuff. I got mbrwork from http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/utilities.html
It will probably be tomorrow before I can try it though.

Best wishes,
Ian
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Ian W. Wright
Sheffield, UK
----- Original Message -----
From: "fred" <xxxxx [at] northtrafford.ac.uk>
To: <shef-lug [at] list.sheflug.org.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 8:57 AM
Subject: Re: [Sheflug] lost mbr


> Hi
>
> Try looking for a dos util called mbrwork from bootdisk.com you can boot
with a
> boot disk (msdos622) then type in mbrwork
>
> Look for option recover partition table think itsa "a" select this, it
will
> then try to recover all partitions if you hav selected no of partitions as
4
> after it has found them it may request option 5
>
> regards
>
>
> fred
>
> "Ian W. Wright" wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have been messing around trying to set up a dual boot installation on
an
> > old laptop and somehow I've wiped the master boot record - at least, the
> > startup disk now says that it can't find one on /dev/hda.
> > I know its been mentioned before but I can'r find it in my archives -
can
> > someone please remind me what the command is to rebuild the mbr (mbr -f
?)?
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Best wishes,
> > Ian
> > --
> > "The difference between theory and practice is much smaller in theory
than
> > it is in practice..."
> >
> > Ian W. Wright
> > Sheffield  UK
> >
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