Re: Recovering the original boot sector
Jor-el wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> When I purchased my PC, it came with Win95 preloaded. After
> installing linux on it, lilo did back up the original bootsector and
> stored it in /boot, but over the past two years, and after a couple of
> Linux reinstalls, I lost the original bootsector (blush). Now, I am
> planning to reorganize my Win95 partition again, and I need to recover the
> original bootsector.
Effectively, if you reinstalled Linux, the boot0, have gone.
> The CompUSA support people that I talked to said that there is no
> way I could recover just the bootsector - they could recover to the
> original configuration shipped. But this is useless to me.
> They did say that 'fdisk /MBR' would recreate the original
> bootsector. So here is what I propose to do :
They're (unfortunately) right, MacroSOB products don't care about other OS;
making 'fdisk /MBR' will bring you back to the beginning... winbrock only...
You MUST have a Linux boot floppy to reboot under it, and re-run lilo to recover
your multi-boot (silly, isn't it?)
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Jean-Yves Barbier <jybarbier@wanadoo.fr>
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