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To: Terry Lee <terryl@CS.Stanford.EDU>
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Subject: Re: Help! Boot manager gone after Windows95 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 06 Sep 1995 12:30:08 PDT."
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Date: Wed, 06 Sep 1995 13:04:32 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> Okay, I just installed Windows 95 over my dos partition.  It seems to 
> have wiped my Boot Manager so I can no longer access my FreeBSD 
> partition.  The old sysinstall boot disk used to let you just write the 
> MBR, but I couldn't get the current boot disk to do it for me.  What to do?

Can you run OS-BS or BOOTEASY from a DOS box?

> P.S.  Does Windows95 have a new file system or did they just hack the old 
> one?

Neither, actually.  It uses the same old FAT filesystem but has
"mapping files" to give you long filename -> 8.3 remapping.

					Jordan