From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 25 00:32:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA12970 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 25 May 1997 00:32:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kithrup.com (kithrup.com [205.179.156.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA12963 for ; Sun, 25 May 1997 00:32:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from sef@localhost) by kithrup.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id AAA10398 for questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 25 May 1997 00:32:10 -0700 Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 00:32:10 -0700 From: Sean Eric Fagan Message-Id: <199705250732.AAA10398@kithrup.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Okay, I blew my boot blocks Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Well, boot block. System setup: two disks, both SCSI. SCSI ID 0 has Win95 and WinNT. SCSI ID 1 has FreeBSD. Boot selection is with bteasy, I think. (F1 DOS, F2 Disk 2 -- that sound right?) Today: my system misbehaved, and the scsi "verify media" test told me that block 0 on SCSI ID 0 was damaged, and had to be remapped. In doing so, I lost the ability to, well, boot. I've installed OSBS20B8 on it, so I can boot BSD, anyway. But my question is: can I fix this? Can I get that block 0 back to something reasonable, without having to reinstall Win95 and NT? (Well, if it comes to that point, I don't think I'd install Win95 again. It likes wiping out all disks too much, when doing an install. Plus it was just such a pain in the ass to deal with. Not that NT was a whole lot easier, but the only problem I had with that, really, was the ethernet card needing a newer device driver. As to why I run Windows -- multimedia stuff only works under Win95, and I use Quicken under NT.) So... can I recover from this? Thanks... Sean.