Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 14:16:51 -0800 (PST) From: michael <killjoy@burnvictim.com> To: Jim Karocki <JimK@DowlingAssoc.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "D.J. McIntee" <DJ@DowlingAssoc.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD killed the Windows95 Master Boot record. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980219141329.7888A-100000@shell3.ba.best.com> In-Reply-To: <81EFC4883E08D1119269080017B3948D07FA5D@dg3.dowlinggroup.com>
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I don't know much about windows 95 but for me (I use NT) When I installed FreeBSD and over write the boot record it was sufficient to use a dos boot disk with fdisk on it and just `fdisk /mbr` to rewrite the boot record. Another solution that will be probably be more win 95 friendly is to get the utility bootpart (I can't rember the url but its trivial to find using yahoo or something like that) which will write out a native win 95 boot record. You also might want to check to see if it isn't the boot record thats over written but rather the active partition is set to the wrong partition. This happened to me once when I did an install of FreeBSD on another machine. You can check this using dos fdisk or bootpart. michael On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Jim Karocki wrote: > > How do you go about recovering that? All steps would be helpful. > > Jim K > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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