Re: Grub and win98 boot record
98 is done the same way... The only difference between 'sys c:' in DOS and
Windows is that windows adds command.com for you whereas in DOS, you had to
copy that over after running sys. (maybe they started that in version 5 of
DOS?)
----- Original Message -----
From: "David P James" <dpjames@rogers.com>
To: "debian-user" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 8:40 PM
Subject: Re: Grub and win98 boot record
> 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.
>
>
> --
> David P. James
> Ottawa, Ontario
> http://members.rogers.com/dpjames/
>
> The bureaucratic mentality is the only constant in the universe.
> -Dr. Leonard McCoy, Star Trek IV
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