From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans) Subject: Re: Booting from the hard disk Date: 24 Jun 1992 09:04:28 GMT
jbrogers@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (John B. Jr. Rogerson) writes:
:
: I am using shoelace to allow hard disk booting of either Linux or
: Dos, and it seems to work quite well. As a result of recent notes, it
: appears that there exist other methods to accomplish this without
: tinkering with the partition table sector. I would like to de-install
: shoelace to try out these other methods, but I now find that the floppy
: disk on which the original partition table sector was written has been
: overwritten by a dumb klutz who had failed to clearly label the floppy.
The partition table is on the first sector of the HD. I'll get the
details when I get into my office.
: Is there any way I can recover the original sector? If I knew
: what the contents of that sector was, I could perhaps restore it using
: Norton's Utilities. Any hope of finding out what the original sector
: looked like?
You need to know what partitions you have. so that you can rgenerate
the partition table.
: Everything works fine at the moment, but I feel uneasy not knowing
: how I can recover. Thanks for any advice and/or suggestions.
: Jack Rogerson jbrogers@phoenix.princeton.edu
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