Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 18:49:16 -0500 From: "Nick Lozinsky" <nl3481@wi.rr.com> To: "Nick Lozinsky" <nl3481@wi.rr.com>, "RP Kelvin" <rp200107712@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Boot Record Deleted Message-ID: <000c01c1fc6b$1f936c60$145c1f41@un1x> References: <20020515231934.94145.qmail@web21507.mail.yahoo.com> <000601c1fc6a$1988e760$145c1f41@un1x>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Lozinsky" <nl3481@wi.rr.com> To: "RP Kelvin" <rp200107712@yahoo.com>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 6:41 PM Subject: Re: Boot Record Deleted > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "RP Kelvin" <rp200107712@yahoo.com> > To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 6:19 PM > Subject: Boot Record Deleted > > > > Hello All, > > We (in our company) have a PC with FreeBSD 4.4 and > > Windows 95 (used sparingly) on a dual boot. > > Accidentally my coworker did a fdisk /mbr on > > PC thereby erasing the boot record. The disk > > is not formatted so I know the FreeBSD also exists. > > Now it directly boots Windows and does not give the > > prompt for F1, F2, etc. > > > > Please advise how to get back the boot record > > so that we can dual boot between windows and FreeBSD > > again. I have FreeBSD CD's with me. Please don't > > tell it is not possible ! > > > > Thanks > > RP > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience > > http://launch.yahoo.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > Hi, > > depending on what dard drives you have, WD, for eamples has a DOS utility > that will show you all of the MBR on all disks, if you have more than one > That way you can restore it, but the only other way I'd do boot off a BSD > boot disk and tweak with the boot loader; I dont know if Win95 has a boot > loader like NT/2000/XP, but if it does, then you can have windowz start up > and create a BSD boot imaage, 512bytes, stick it into C:\ and edit the > boot.ini file. > > That is an overview, let me know if you need more assistance. > > Nick > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Better yet, go http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/troubleshoot.html#BOOTMANAGER-RESTORE there. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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