Lost boot block on hard disk - how to recover ?
#1
A friend has managed to damage the boot block on his hard disk and can no longer boot into windows obviously.
Whats the easiest quickest way to get it booting again ?
If I remember back in days of yore, you could transfer the system files off a boot floppy, over to the hard disk and this would do the trick ? Would this work with Win98SE ? (FAT32)
A:> SYS C:
-Darren
[Edited by DazV - 12/26/2001 8:18:58 PM]
Whats the easiest quickest way to get it booting again ?
If I remember back in days of yore, you could transfer the system files off a boot floppy, over to the hard disk and this would do the trick ? Would this work with Win98SE ? (FAT32)
A:> SYS C:
-Darren
[Edited by DazV - 12/26/2001 8:18:58 PM]
#2
On a working PC, ideally with the same revision of Windows, do a SYS A: from a command prompt.
You'll need to copy SYS.COM from \Windows\Command onto the floppy as well.
Then boot the duff PC off the floppy and do SYS C:
You'll need to copy SYS.COM from \Windows\Command onto the floppy as well.
Then boot the duff PC off the floppy and do SYS C:
#4
Cheers all.
Thing I'll do a SYS C:
If that doesn't work, I'll put in a master hard disk, set the original to slave and try and use partition magic on it.
Thanks again.
Thing I'll do a SYS C:
If that doesn't work, I'll put in a master hard disk, set the original to slave and try and use partition magic on it.
Thanks again.
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