Re: Help! Messed up my MBR part 2

1997-02-23 Thread Bill Roman
Gertjan Klein wrote: > > From what you've written, I gather that you inadvertedly told LILO to > overwrite the boot sector (_not_ the MBR) of your DOS partition. DOS > keeps some important bookkeeping information in it's boot sector, among > which the size of the partition, the number of sectors i

Re: Help! Messed up my MBR part 2

1997-02-23 Thread Dave Cinege
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gertjan Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Hutchinson) wrote: > > > Here is some more information on my sad state! I'm coming into this late. Mail me if any of this does not make sence!! I'm assuming MS-DOS was on your primary C: drive partition.

Re: Help! Messed up my MBR part 2

1997-02-23 Thread Gertjan Klein
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Hutchinson) wrote: > Here is some more information on my sad state! [All information zapped...] >From what you've written, I gather that you inadvertedly told LILO to overwrite the boot sector (_not_ the MBR) of your DOS partition. DOS keeps some important bookkeeping i

Re: Help! Messed up my MBR part 2

1997-02-23 Thread William Chow
On Sat, 22 Feb 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: > On Sat, 22 Feb 1997, Brian Hutchinson wrote: > > > Here is some more information on my sad state! > > Maybe I'll be the first to answer the simplest of your questions: > > The dos mbr can be replaced with dos fdisk: > > c:\=> fdisk /mbr > > ...Ri

Re: Help! Messed up my MBR part 2

1997-02-22 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sat, 22 Feb 1997, Brian Hutchinson wrote: > Here is some more information on my sad state! Maybe I'll be the first to answer the simplest of your questions: The dos mbr can be replaced with dos fdisk: c:\=> fdisk /mbr ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "