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Re: Grub and win98 boot record



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
>
>

I did the exact same thing once - but there is a way to recover.
Do you have a Windows boot disk? If so, boot the computer
into DOS with it and at the prompt simply type 'SYS c:\'
(I'm assuming any reasonable DOS boot disk has sys on it).
That will rewrite the boot sector of the C:\ partition with
the DOS/Windows bootloader. Caveat: This was with Win95, not
Win98, but I don't see why it shouldn't still work.


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