[ale] MBR rebuilder ?

George A. Nies gnies at mindspring.com
Tue Jul 7 10:48:59 EDT 1998


Nomad the Wanderer 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.

So why not boot linux using the loadlin.exe dos prog?  Boot linux using
that, then
just re-install lilo.

	-George






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