From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 21 1:39:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from volodya.prime.net.ua (volodya.prime.net.ua [195.64.229.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A88A214C13 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 01:39:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andyo@prime.net.ua) Received: from prime.net.ua (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by volodya.prime.net.ua (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA00528; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 13:24:26 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from andyo@prime.net.ua) Message-ID: <376CC158.D927FD08@prime.net.ua> Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 13:24:24 +0300 From: "Andy V. Oleynik" Organization: M-Info X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-BETA i386) X-Accept-Language: ru, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cjclark@home.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Broken FAT FS During Install References: <199906191552.LAA22884@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- WBW Andy V. Oleynik (When U work in virtual office U have good chance to obtain virtual money ö%-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message