how do I restore the MBR in win2000?

[mcveigh]

While trying to get my new NIC working in linux I tried 4 different distro's last night......so I hosed my MBR

ANd now just want to get win2k back.

I used a win98 system disk to do "fdisk /mbr" but that didn't work.

I can't find my win2k CD to help me.

What else can I do?

 

[Cyph3r]

Not much actually without the W2K CD, cuz what you're going to have to do is do a REPAIR on W2K and that will re-instate the Windows BOOT manager..the other option is to keep LILO running and then make it point to the Windows partition and that will also boot Windows..Regards

 

[HansXP]

Wierd. Under NT4, I could restore it by using 9x's fdisk /mbr command. This doesn't work under 2K????

 

[CaptainGoodnight]

Boot off the win2k CD and select repair, then recoverey console. login. type (i think) fixmbr -- if not type help and one of those should work.

 

[mcveigh]

Thanks people, I need to clean up around here anyways (to find my win2k cd's)

HansXP yes it didn't work for me Also the dos command "format a: /s" wouldnt work either