Restore Original WinXP MBR under suse 8.0

Taspharel · 07-24-2003, 02:28 PM

... without having any graphical interface.

While Installing Suse 8.0 it told me something about being able to restore the original mbr from my disk ( i have win xp running next to suse 8.0 that isnt quite running, see my post before this one).
Anybody can tell me how to do so and where to find the old mbr? I didnt write down where it is....

tangle · 07-24-2003, 02:33 PM

Do you want to overwrite the MBR or clear it?

michaelk · 07-24-2003, 06:27 PM

To restore the MBR boot the XP boot CD to rescue mode and run the fixmbr program.

angelrod · 07-24-2003, 06:39 PM

Also if you have a win98 boot disk, at the prompt type:

fdisk /mbr

Taspharel · 07-24-2003, 10:40 PM

Kk---- thanks alot. Will try that as soon as I come back from work today ;-)