[ale] MBR rebuilder ?

['Nomad the Wanderer']

Note the last sentance....


Thus spake Jacob Langseth (jlangseth at esisys.com):

> On Monday, July 06, 1998 6:19 PM, Nomad the Wanderer [SMTP:nomad at orci.com] 
> wrote:
> > Ok,
> >   Who is a good C programmer in Dos?  I'm fed up with 95 and 98.  They
> > still have that "design flaw" that overwrites teh MBR... imagine that.
> > Anyone here willing to write a proggy that given a -r will read the
> > contents of the mbr and given a -w will write it back so I don't have
> > to go through the rescue disk stuff to rebuild my box?  It wouldn't be
> > such a big deal, but I don't have a floppy in it right now...
> 
> One possibility would be to create a boot/root disk (ala
> ancient slackware) and stick dd on it.
> dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/fd0 block_size=512 count=1, iirc
> 
> --
> Jacob Langseth <jlangseth at esisys.com>
> Enhanced Systems, Inc.
> 

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