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- From: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: remove LILO?
- Message-ID: <3669.1189.uupcb@satalink.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 18:18:00 GMT
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434
- Reply-To: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
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- BH>You just have to overwrite the last two bytes. If no valid signature appears
- BH>at the end of the current contents of the Master-Boot-Block, DOS fdisk will
- BH>write a new one. But there is no guarantee that fdisk will actually do so.
- BH>Their experience is that you shouldn't expect any data to be available after
- BH>fdisk rewrites an invalid MBR, even if previously existing DOS partitions
- BH>are re-allocated with identical cylinder ranges as at the time of their
- BH>initial creation. So backup your stuff.
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- MS-DOS 5.0 will reliably write a Master Boot Record on an existing volume
- without trashing anything by just using the undocumented command:
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- FDISK /MBR
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- I've done this for a number of systems, even my Linux one, no problems,
- and no lost data. You then have the stock MS-DOS MBR on your drive.
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- . KingQWK 1.05 # 97 . My computer can whip your computer!
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