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- From: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
- Subject: Re: Installing DOS after Windows NT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.172407.16081@solaris.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
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- Reply-To: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
- Organization: Techn. Univ. Clausthal
- References: <BxMGKL.KMp@unx.sas.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:24:07 GMT
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- In <BxMGKL.KMp@unx.sas.com> saswta@terrapin.unx.sas.com (Bill Arnette) writes:
- >
- > Somehow, my C:\BOOTSECT.DOS got corrupted and I am now unable to boot DOS from
- > Flexboot. Can I re-install DOS without having to re-install Windows NT?
-
- I have a tool for such problems called READBOOT.EXE. READBOOT.EXE is available
- on SIMTEL20 in PD:<MSDOS.DSKUTL>FDFORM18.ZIP (or from one of SIMTEL20 mirrors).
- To fix the problem do the following.
-
- 1) Unpack READBOOT.EXE from FDFORM18.ZIP and put it on FAT partition
- 2) Boot from MS-DOS Boot-Disk
- 3) Type: READBOOT C: C:\BOOTSECT.NT
- 4) Type: READBOOT A: C:\BOOTSECT.DOS
- 5) Type: READBOOT C:\BOOTSECT.DOS C:
- 6) Type: READBOOT C: C:\BOOTSECT.DOS
- 7) Type: READBOOT C:\BOOTSECT.NT C:
-
- This will allow you to Flexboot again. This several copying is necessary
- to ensure, that the BOOTSECT.DOS file you took from your floppy, will
- have the correct entries for Number of sectors, Number of sectors per track,
- etc.
-
- Christoph
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