[KLUG Members] fixing bad mbr on WinXP with linux

[bill]

On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 19:29, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > 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.

Hmmmm... I can create a boot disk on a local WinXP machine, but it
doesn't seem to have fdisk...