From: danny@dragon.stgt.sub.org (Daniel T. Schwager) Subject: Re: DOS partition Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1993 22:18:30 GMT
Peter Lu (swift@world.std.com) wrote:
: Help!!!
: I inadvertently did a "dd of=/dev/hda if=..." and trashed the
: partition table on my C disk. Luckily, I knew its layout and just
: manually recovered the partition set-up. However, the first partition I
: had on it, the primary DOS partition, doesn't quite work any more. It
: was a small 7 Meg partition so I recreated it using the DOS fdisk utility
: and then did the "format c:" and "sys c:" sequence. However, I no longer
: can boot from this partition despite the fact that msdos.sys, io.sys, and
: command.com are there. My screen sort of blanks out and everything
: hangs.
: Since I originally caused the problem from linux, using "dd",
: perhaps this group would be the best in being able to help me out. What
: did I do with the write to /dev/hda such that the system booter cannot
: get to the DOS boot files? Everything else seems to be working just
: fine, including accesses to other partitions (linux) on the disk. Thanks
: for any advice in advance.
: Peter Lu
Try to reconstruct the master boot record with 'fdisk /MBR' !!
(I had the same problem)
Danny
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