At 09:30 PM 2/19/1999 +0000, 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. > > > >Nils =O) >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >"You could trouble me for a nice warm glass of shut up!" >http://members.tripod.com/YouthRAGE/
I don't remember all the thread; does it go something like this? You've got one drive; it was setup to run Linux; now you need to go back to DOS and you can't get DOS to boot but Linux still does? You just have one drive, not two? You've booted off a DOS floppy and run fdisk and removed the Linux partitions and created one primary partition and made it active (bootable) and rebooted off the floppy and then ran "fdisk /mbr" and then rebooted off the floppy and then ran "format c: /s"? If this didn't work, I suspect some sort of hardware issue; perhaps your CMOS isn't autodetecting the hard drive properly, or you've got a master/slave jumper set improperly. If all the hardware is okay, then doing the above steps should wipe the drive and restore it to a bootable (minimal DOS) state. If it doesn't, I'm stumped.
