Ok, so I goofed up big time!!! Time to ask for HAAALLLP!!! :) I guess I was sleepy, or maybe the instructions really weren't clear -- I dunno -- when I went through the installation program yesterday, FreeDOS installed itself fine and all, and towards the end asked me whether it should install the bootsector. I told it to go ahead -- assuming it would ask me *which drive* to install the bootsector to -- but it didnt, and cooly went ahead and installed onto my C: ... meaning, poof went my Windows XP bootsector! heehe! :)
(My machine has a primary master with Windows 98, FreeBSD, Windows XP, and Linux. Was installing FreeDOS to a primary partition on the secondary master. Am using GRUB as my bootloader). Is there any way I can restore the XP bootsector? I did a brief check on the net (at night, while I was still sleepy) and found some pages that said I could use the Windows XP CD and go into repair mode and use the FIXMBR command. I did that, but nothing seems to have changed. Coz my MBR is still intact -- GRUB hasn't budged -- and my C: bootsector is still FreeDOS. I will try again in the evening, but now while I am at work and can't do anything but wait, I thought I'd ask here if there are any alternate suggestions. Suppose the FIXMBR command doesn't work, how can I restore the Windows XP bootsector? Just for the record, I have Linux and FreeBSD too installed ... incase there are any tricks I can do using those. And oh, I have a startup floppy too, which is what I am now using to boot into Windows XP. :) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
