Re: [Bug-grub] Re: windows boot sector recover?

[Jason Thomas]

hmmm, in linux fdisk delete the partition and recreate it. the contents
should remain intact. but make sure you have a backup of anything
important.

On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 03:46:09AM +0300, address@hidden wrote:
> Date: 25.07.02
> Sender: Jason Thomas
> Time: 09:59
> 
> > okay first make the partition active, that might help.
> > then do the 'fdisk /mbr' anyway.
> > then do 'sys c:' and see what happens
> 
> I wrote about that before.
> 
> Error: "Cannot execute SYS on a filesystem"
> 
> 
> 
> > you may have to zero out the partitions boot sector using 'dd' you can
> > find info on doing that in the mailing list archives. but I think the
> > fdisk /mbr should help in this regard.
> 
> I tried this way too ("dd if=/dev/zero of=... count =1"), but...
> 
> 
> Error. The disk is not valid (abort, retry or fail).
> 
> 
> 
> Anythiing else?
> 
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