Andy wrote: > > 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 >
You're welcome, and glad to hear it. To be honest, I don't know if fixboot (or some other MS command) can restore a backup boot sector. NTFS also has a backup boot sector (the last sector of the partition), so you would think they would have a command than can restore it but... Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
