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]

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:

If that doesn't work, you could try

fdisk /mbr

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.