On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 15:31, Scott Henson wrote: > While playing around with grub a few months ago I must have over wrote > my boot record for win98. Now the isnt the MBR on hda, this is the boot > loader on hda1. Does anyone know a way to recover this boot record, or > am I going to have to reinstall windows(if this is the only option its > not worth it and Im just going to reformat the partition.) I would > really like to know if there is a way to restore the Win98 boot loader. > Thanks > > > -- > -Peace kid > Scott Henson shenson2@wvu.edu I know 'lilo' has an un-install switch (lilo -U)which will replace the previous contents of whatever boot sector/partition was being used, maybe grub has the same. I don't do much Windows but I thought W9X always slammed hda with its boot loader, in which case, if you have a DOS boot disc 'fdisk /mbr' will give up your W98 boot loader, no more Grub though. -- Greg C. Madden Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
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