Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 10:13:43 +0100 From: "Ghulam Dastgir" <banta@ghulam.force9.co.uk> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: FBSD no longer bootable Message-ID: <000701bf1ba4$acf83f40$1b6e38d4@ghulam>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] In short I can no longer boot my PC into FreeBSD. Previously I'd been using FBSD happily as part of a dual boot system sharing the hard-disk with Windows 95. The dual mechaninsm was provided by FBSD's booteasy boot manager. The problem occured when Windows got corrupted and I had to reinstall Windows. So now Windows is OK but I can't access the separate FBSD partition, which I now still exists because the DOS fdisk utility still shows it is there. but now fbsd appears before Windows on the harddrive, or at least this is what dos fdisk says. Any ideas on how I can recover my fbsd. Is it because Windows has overwritten the Master Boot Record? Or will it be the dreaded TOTAL system reinstall? Thanks, Ghulam [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content='"MSHTML 4.72.3110.7"' name=GENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>In short I can no longer boot my PC into FreeBSD. Previously I'd been using FBSD happily as part of a dual boot system sharing the hard-disk with Windows 95. The dual mechaninsm was provided by FBSD's booteasy boot manager.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>The problem occured when Windows got corrupted and I had to reinstall Windows. So now Windows is OK but I can't access the separate FBSD partition, which I now still exists because the DOS fdisk utility still shows it is there. but now fbsd appears before Windows on the harddrive, or at least this is what dos fdisk says.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Any ideas on how I can recover my fbsd. Is it because Windows has overwritten the Master Boot Record? Or will it be the dreaded TOTAL system reinstall?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Thanks,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Ghulam</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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