Date: Wed, 07 Aug 1996 14:21:53 -0500 (EST) From: "Jeffrey M. Metcalf" <jeffrey_m._metcalf@ccmail.bms.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: metcalf@imagine.com, joseph_m._o'connor@ccgate1.bms.com Subject: Repair boot sector of IDE hard drive Message-ID: <9607078394.AA839454178@ccgate0.bms.com>
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Hello,
In preparing an installation of FreeBSD 2.1, a collegue of mine and I
used DOS fdisk to partition an IDE hard drive and through one process
or another, managed to corrupt the boot sector. We do not have a
backup of the boot sector and would like to know if there is a way
to repair it. We know the geometry of the hard drive. It is a
1272MB hard drive with a geometry of 2466 cyls, 16 heads, and
63 sectors. Currently, DOS fdisk reports that the maximum size
of the hard drive available for a primary DOS partition is
504MB, when this is clearly not the case. We want to correct the
boot sector so that DOS fdisk will recognize the 1272MB as the
maximum available size for a primary DOS partition.
Thanks,
J. Metcalf
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