Date: Sat, 7 Oct 1995 05:50:25 +0100 (MET) From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: gt4722a@prism.gatech.edu (Brian "AGENT GORDON COLE" Atkins) Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org (user alias) Subject: Re: Win95 trashed booteasy and I can't fix it Message-ID: <199510070450.FAA13331@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <199510062047.QAA10902@acmex.gatech.edu> from "Brian "AGENT GORDON COLE" Atkins" at Oct 6, 95 04:47:25 pm
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> > > > > > > > > I made a big mistake and installed Win95 :) > > > It trashed all over booteasy, so a friend helped me out and got me a new > > > copy of it. I copied to a dos disk and tried to run it, but it gets > > > error 3 on disk 0 when I try to update the boot sector. > > > Is there any hope?? > > > > If your run it from a DOS disk (boot from that DOS disk) > > you should be able to run it. I never saw that error 3. > > It may sound stupid but try it again with the booteasy from > > freebsd.cdrom.com or a mirror site and do it from a virus > > clean diskette. I believe the floppy disk must be writable > > since booteasy writes a backup copy of the boot sector > > to the current directory. > > > > I was using the latest booteasy(1.7) from a dos disk in Win95's > "command monitor" or whatever it is calling dos nowadays. The disk > was writeable and everything... > As I already said (and Terry Lambert alsp pointed out): Boot from a DOS disk and don't use the Win95 Command tool (unless you shut down Win95 to the command prompt). Win95 'protects' your disk from being written to the bootsectors. --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199510070450.FAA13331>