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[ILUG] fixing windows

[ILUG] fixing windows

Martin List-Petersen martin+ilug at list-petersen.net
Mon Feb 7 04:30:19 GMT 2005


On søn, 2005-02-06 at 23:57 +0000, Steven Satelle wrote:
> [2] Is there a linux version of 'fdisk /mbr'?

No, Linux fdisk does not have an option like that. There are two ways of
archieving this:

On Debian:
install-mbr /dev/sda --force (where /dev/sda is the device, that you
want a new mbr on)

On any other distribution find a system with a sane mbr and run:
dd if=/dev/sda of=mbr.img bs=512 count=1

On the system, that has a problem with the mbr you can then write this
mbr to the disk:
dd if=mbr.img of=/dev/sda

That's basically the only way to do it on Linux, as least, what i know
of.

Slán leat,
Martin List-Petersen
Dublin, Eire 
(contact info on --> http://www.marlow.dk/)




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