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

[Richard Wentk]

At 08:05 22/11/2004 -0800, Jay Schwichtenberg 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).

fdisk/mbr

See:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q69013/

I'd strongly suggest trying this before you trash your installation. 
There's a very good chance it will solve your problem.

Richard