Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 18:41:56 -0500 From: "Nick Lozinsky" <nl3481@wi.rr.com> To: "RP Kelvin" <rp200107712@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Boot Record Deleted Message-ID: <000601c1fc6a$1988e760$145c1f41@un1x> References: <20020515231934.94145.qmail@web21507.mail.yahoo.com>
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----- 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
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