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Date:      Wed, 12 Mar 2003 20:34:30 +0100 (CET)
From:      Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org>
To:        dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: MBR screwed up
Message-ID:  <20030312203248.O3308-100000@foem.leiden.webweaving.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030312202850.I3308-100000@foem.leiden.webweaving.org>

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On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote:

> On older windozes one would boot from floppy and do a
>
> 	format.exe c: /mbr

Actually - my memory is fading; that should be fdisk. And a quick man
check on WinXP yeilds 'fixmbr' to be the equivalent:

	fixmbr <device name>

	fixmbr \Device\HardDisk0

without a device name it will write to the boot device. See also the man
page for 'fixboot'.

Dw


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