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James M. Adams (jmadams@jamesm95.freeserve.co.uk)
Thu, 28 Jan 1999 19:25:54 -0000
I've had similar problems with my Seagate, Quantum and Western Digital IDE
Drives. They advised me to use the DiskManager Software '0-Fill' Option to
clean the HD. Western Digital have a utility called Wddiag.exe, for their
drives. http://www.wdc.com/
Regards
James
-----Original Message-----
From: David & Masako Bellwood <blwd@home.com>
To: Peter Kim <pckim@interchange.ubc.ca>
Cc: Vanlug <vanlug@gweep.bc.ca>
Date: 28 January 1999 18:55
Subject: Re: Accidentally modified MBR...
>I have exactly the same problem. I have deleted all partitions,
>recreated them and re-deleted using DOS & OS/2 FDISK, Partition Magic
>under OS/2 and WIN95, not to mention Norton Disk Doctor. I have a nasty
>feeling I'm going to have to re-install DOS 6.22 and have a go at
>editing the MBR in hex with Norton's Disk Tools (NU 8.0), but I am not
>exactly delighted at the idea. I, too, wait to see if someone can wave a
>magic wand for us. I think I did something stupid with LILO.
>
>Help!
>
>Sincerely
>David Bellwood
>
>Peter Kim wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> I have a dual boot machine (Windows and Linux).
>>
>> I had to re-install Win95 for obvious reasons, but in the process, I
>> modified Master Boot Record and it only boots Windows now.
>> How do I modify MBR so that I have an option to boot linux?
>>
>> Windows is the Primary master drive and Linux is the secondary master
>> drive. They are actually 2 physically separate hard drives...
>>
>> thanks.
>>
>> Peter K.
>
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