[sdiy] OT: I need help form someone that recommended a DOS program link

[Scott Gravenhorst]

"Jay Schwichtenberg" <jays at aracnet.com> wrote:
>Didn't mention if you were running some flavor of Windows. So here goes for
>the Windows stuff. But it's been a long time and I can't remember what
>belongs to what OS.
>
>Some of the OS' have the ability to repair what they call the master boot
>record or mbr. Depending on the OS you might be able to use this as a
>command line option for format or fdisk (format mbr or fdisk mbr). Can't
>remember which. This will rewrite the boot record on the disk. Also with W2K
>there are some recover process' that can be ran from the boot discs.

FDISK /MBR 

will restore the master boot record of a FAT volume.  If you are using NTFS,
this will not work.  Note that /MBR is not included in the /? output of this
command, even though it does work.


>Keep in mind there are a number of things that can hose a dos installation
>on a modern PC. Main thing I ran across in the 512 meg disc limit along with
>a 16 bit FAT.
>
>Jay S.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
>> [mailto:owner-synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl]On Behalf Of J. Larry Hendry
>> Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 5:33 PM
>> To: Synth-DIY
>> Subject: [sdiy] OT: I need help form someone that recommended a DOS
>> program link
>>
>>
>> A couple of days ago, someone recommended a link to some software that
>> allowed running DOS programs in the windows environment.  It seemed better
>> than a DOS prompt as it promised real control of the disk drives (for
>> software like blind imaging programs).
>>
>> Unfortunately, I did download and install that utility.  It has completely
>> f**ked my PC.  On booting, I get a "no operating system" error.
>> Well, like
>> any good geek, I got my bootable emergency floppy and booted my
>> machine and
>> mounted my drives allowing me to re-install the operating system.
>>  After all
>> that, I still do not have a bootable hard drive.  So, I am now on
>> a separate
>> PC trying to figure it all out.  If that person could send that
>> link again.
>> I want to go see what's up with that software and see if it will give me
>> some clue as to how to recover from the mess I am in.
>>
>> Sorry for the public bandwidth.
>> Larry Hendry
>>
>>
>>
>
>

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