On Tuesday 27 September 2005 12:42, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > Since your WinXP on /dev/hda1 is a FAT32 partition, one thing that might > work is to use the backup boot sector that is kept on FAT32 file systems > to restore the WinXP boot sector on /dev/hda1. > > dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hda1 bs=512 count=1 skip=6 > > The above dd command will read the 7th sector (or sector 6) of the > partition, and then write it to the 1st sector (or sector 0). The 7th > sector is where the backup boot sector is stored on FAT32. The "skip" > means it will skip over the first 6 sectors when reading from the > partition - since you are interested in the 7th sector. > > GRUB should have only overwritten the 1st sector of the partition. > > Tom
Tom, I cannot thank you enough! Your instructions worked flawlessly. I can't believe that your dd command managed to fix something that Microsoft's own fixboot and fixmbr commands could not. You have saved me a lot of time and money, thank you very much. Regards, Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
