[KLUG Members] fixing bad mbr on WinXP with linux

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> A friend has a non-booting WinXP computer.  It says the root partition
> is unmountable.  He's asking me for a WinXP boot disk, which I can't
> find laying around anywhere.
> I do have a Knoppix and a Ubuntu CD.  So he could boot to Linux (yea!)  
> Is there anything he could do with those to restore the master boot
> record (MBR), which I assume is the problem?  He doesn't know if it's
> fat32 or NTFS.

If you can boot from a DOS floppy you used to be able to "fdisk /mbr" to
regenerate the master boot record.