Subj : W2K Rescue Disk
To   : Alan Zisman
From : William Grinolds
Date : Wed Aug 09 2000 12:52 pm

Alan Zisman wrote in a message to William Grinolds:

 WG> It likely is used just as in NT:  If you need to use it for
 WG> any repair functions, boot up the W2K setup program (from
 WG> the setup floppies or from CD-ROM), and there should be a
 WG> Repair option somewhere.  The repair function will ask for
 WG> the ERD.

 AZ>  I'm trying to remove the Linux LILO boot manager from the boot
 AZ> sector-- so I booted from the W2K CD, and eventually got to the
 AZ> 'R'epair option... from there, there are two options-- 'C' -
 AZ> Recovery Console which checked for the location of the \WinNT
 AZ> folder, then restarted without removing LILO. 

 AZ>  So I tried the other option, 'R' for Repair-- which DID ask for
 AZ> the recovery diskette-- and gave manual options to repair the boot
 AZ> sector... but which also failed to remove LILO.

Okay, try this:  Boot up a Win98 startup disk on that machine, run FDISK/MBR, 
then see if Win2K boots up.  If it doesn't, then try the Repair option and tell 
it to repair the Boot Sector.  The MBR is different from the Boot Sector in 
that the MBR is the first sector of the 'block device' (hard disk in this case) 
and the boot sector is the first sector of the partition.  I'll have to 
remember this one for future reference - Win2K repair does not repair the MBR.

Bill
Internet: wgrinolds@mail.com 
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