[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Overwriting MBR: was: What's wrong with Pine (was Beginner!)

[merlin]

On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Kevin E. Ivey wrote:

> Howdy,
> 
> The ONLY time windoze intentionally overwrites the MBR is during an
> install/reinstall.
> 
> The only other times I have seen the MBR blown away was after a nasty
> MBR virus infection and immediately after a windows crash/reboot.
> 
> You are probably thinking of the msdos.sys file, which is not in the
> MBR.

Then there is always the `fdisk /mbr' which is an undocmented
switch.  This will force a rewrite of the MBR under Windows, and I have
used it to fix my box when I inadvertantly hosed LILO.

-- 
Merlin

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