[KLUG Members] fixing bad mbr on WinXP with linux
bill
bill at billtron.com
Sun Sep 25 21:01:14 EDT 2005
On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 20:17, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> 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.
The HD doesn't have fdisk. Is it called something else now?
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