[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Heroes of the National Disaster and HELP!

[Chris Cox]

Have someone create a bootable Win98 floppy (make sure you
know whether you have the original Win98 or 2nd Ed.... it may
make a difference)... and have them copy fdisk to that floppy.
After booting off of it, do:


A:> fdisk /mbr

I think that should do the trick.
Chris


Allen Flick wrote:

> Hello North Texas Linux User Group:  I lurk here mostly but a friend
> posed this question to me that follows.  This is also going to him so
> if he wants to join the NTLUG list he's getting the info to go to NTLUG.ORG
> to do so.
> 
> Any help is appreciated.
> 
> 
> 
>>OBTW I need help, I screwed up the partition table on my win98 disk.
>>I had been trying to load caldera in a partition.  Every think worked
>>fine until trying to install 'BootMagic'.  It reported an error and
>>would not install.  Being obstinate and having tried for a long time to
>>install Linux I tried a shareware boot manager: www.MSTBOOT.com.en
>>Well that was a mistake.  I managed to screw it up somehow and now the
>>boot sector is not seen.  Norton rescue disk restored the partition
>>table and boot file, but still no boot.  I then used a disk manager to
>>reformat this drive (D)and install Caldera on it.  When I booted the
>>disk manager from floppy it reported a error (I should have written it
>>down) saying something to the effect that the partition data was
>>redirected.  I figure that is an artifact of the boot manager and the
>>source of the problem.  Any ideas on how to recover?
>>
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