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Drezliok
07-15-2004, 07:10 AM
I lost the Hard Drive that I installed Knoppix to, I don't have a replacement so I need to remove the boot loader and restore it to defaul.

My Windows drive[hda1/c:] is NTFS so I can't use my old method of booting with win98 start disk and typing "format mbr".

I need to learn a new way.

Thankyou very much.

Drezliok
07-16-2004, 05:09 AM
Does anyone know?

eco2geek
07-16-2004, 06:00 AM
If you have your Windows installation CD, you "should be able to" fix the MBR by following the instructions in this thread (http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7805).

shah
07-19-2004, 04:08 PM
fdisk /mbr

Drezliok
07-19-2004, 09:34 PM
fdisk /mbr

I would lose my XP if I did that, anyways I fixed it with out destroying anything.

shah
07-20-2004, 11:00 AM
fdisk /mbr will not destroy your Xp. It only rebuild your master boot record and remove lilo or other program that resides on your master boot record.