From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 12 11:34:39 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E602037B401 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 11:34:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from foem.leiden.webweaving.org (fia224-72.dsl.hccnet.nl [62.251.72.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38E8943FAF for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 11:34:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dirkx@webweaving.org) Received: from foem (foem [10.11.0.2]) by foem.leiden.webweaving.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h2CJYZLG051567; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 20:34:35 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from dirkx@webweaving.org) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 20:34:30 +0100 (CET) From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik X-X-Sender: dirkx@foem.leiden.webweaving.org To: dick hoogendijk Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: MBR screwed up In-Reply-To: <20030312202850.I3308-100000@foem.leiden.webweaving.org> Message-ID: <20030312203248.O3308-100000@foem.leiden.webweaving.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 fixmbr \Device\HardDisk0 without a device name it will write to the boot device. See also the man page for 'fixboot'. Dw To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message