Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 13:24:24 +0300 From: "Andy V. Oleynik" <andyo@prime.net.ua> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Broken FAT FS During Install Message-ID: <376CC158.D927FD08@prime.net.ua> References: <199906191552.LAA22884@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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"Crist J. Clark" wrote:
> [______ _. _______] wrote,
> > I dont know will it help in ur case.
> > Try to use WIN95 "sys" utility to restore
> > boot record for WIN partition.
>
> Hmmm, I have been avoiding a M$ solution. It's well known that Win9x
> will over-write boot blocks without asking and other Bad Things. I
> assume that this 'restoration' of my Win9x OS is going to clobber
> BootEasy and I'll need to be ready to reinstall it?
>
AFAIK "sys" only rewrites partition's boot record not MBR so
ur booteasy remains intact.
>
> This is getting a little off topic, but how do I use this 'sys'
> utility? Is it on a Win95 boot floppy (there are such beasts, right?)?
>
Just format floppy with system files to bee stored and copy there
"sys" form windows\command dir. Boot with it and do "sys c:".
Couple years ago when I used both WINDOZE & FreeBSD on my PC
I had situation with corrupted WIN's boot sector. I used FreeBSD
bootmanager and I know it's easy to restore it.
> Because the system in question does not have a bootable CDROM, and my
> first impulse to get at this 'sys' would be a Windoze95 CDROM.
> --
> Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com
>
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