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Date:      Wed, 15 May 2002 18:49:16 -0500
From:      "Nick Lozinsky" <nl3481@wi.rr.com>
To:        "Nick Lozinsky" <nl3481@wi.rr.com>, "RP Kelvin" <rp200107712@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Boot Record Deleted
Message-ID:  <000c01c1fc6b$1f936c60$145c1f41@un1x>
References:  <20020515231934.94145.qmail@web21507.mail.yahoo.com> <000601c1fc6a$1988e760$145c1f41@un1x>

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Lozinsky" <nl3481@wi.rr.com>
To: "RP Kelvin" <rp200107712@yahoo.com>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 6:41 PM
Subject: Re: Boot Record Deleted


> ----- 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
> >
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> 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
>
>
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Better yet, go
http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/troubleshoot.html#BOOTMANAGER-RESTORE there.


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