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[ILUG] Windows Bootloader Recovery

[ILUG] Windows Bootloader Recovery

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Mon Jun 27 15:07:18 IST 2005


Quoting Gareth Eason (bigbro at skynet.ie):

> Erm... forgive me if I misunderstand the problem, but is this not a
> typical case where booting from a DOS boot disk and issueing the command
> ~ "fdisk /mbr" will fix things? If you want a Windows only machine, this
> will replace the MBR and call the windows bootloader.
> 
> DOS boot disks and fdisk for DOS are available all over the internet
> (even though they probably shouldn't be, maybe?)

That's indeed what we used to use before the open-source "ms-sys"
project replaced it:  http://ms-sys.sourceforge.net/




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