restoring MBR????

[zaqo]

I erased my MBR accidently installing linux. is there any way i can restore it w/o haveing to do a clean install of windows? thats my problem windows won't boot now. "missing operating system" is the error i get.

email: zaqo@penguinpowered.com
aim : zaqo

 

[ltk007]

fdisk /mbr

it will load your OS on your active partition, getting rid of any boot managers

 

[Isaiah]

fdisk /mbr will work

 

[zaqo]

i tried fdisk /mbr but i still get the missing operating system thing.

 

[BadThad]

Try to sys the drive next.

 

[THELAIR]

this is what i do, when dual botting between win2k and linux


when i install linux, the win2k boot manager gets over written, if possible try this


load the computer up with the boot discs or hte CD-Rom, choose recovery, choose recovery console (drops you into a command prompt, might have to enter your admin password here though)

try these 2 commands

fdisk /mbr
and
fixboot

should work

there is a article and winmag.com i think that details a bit better those steps.

 

[airfoil]

zaqo,

Doing a sys c: after booting from a Windows cd will work just fine. It worked for me!