Subj : Re: W2K Rescue Disk
To   : William Grinolds
From : Alan Zisman
Date : Thu Aug 10 2000 07:18 am

-=> William Grinolds wrote to Alan Zisman <=-

 WG> 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.

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

 That's about what I had in mind... but I may take a pass on the whole thing...
if it doesn't work, I have an unbootable hard drive. (Though I suppose I could
re-install Win2K ontop of the existing setup and get back to business).
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