On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Nils Lorvick wrote: > As I referred to in my previous email, is that I have tried fdisk /mbr > in DOS and that hasen't worked. I believe there is something corrupt > in the boot sector/FAT tables. And I can't get it back. I have tried > the DD if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 bs=1024 count=1 and it doesn't do > ANYTHING. It gives me the default options menu...but nothing happens to the > hard drive.
is this the dd (if there is one) on the rescue floppy? It may be a stripped down version. Perhaps someone with more C skills than I could compile you a quick binary to do this without linking many (or any) dynamic libraries. Of course, it's always possible that your first few sectors are hosed, but not too likely. I think you're on the right track with the dd command though, as I remember reading somewhere that in order for DOS to recognize a partition as its own, it must see either all zeros ore dos partition data on that drive. It's more complicated than that, but I don't remember a whole lot of it. Good luck. -Dano
