[KLUG Members] fixing bad mbr on WinXP with linux

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 19:56 -0400, bill wrote:
> 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...

Yep, you have to copy the fdisk command file to the floppy manually.