Error Loading operating system_

[pezz453]

I think my MBR is F'ed.
Solutions?

:oops:


edit:

2 drives, one 20gig(master) one 15(slave)

[pezz453]

data is not important. so, any fix is fine.

[UnderScore]

I googled around and found a presentation by Kyle Rankin, author of "Knoppix Hacks", who goes by the nickname 'greenfly'.

OSCON - 2005-08-04
System Rescue with Knoppix
http://www.greenfly.org/talks/knoppix/rescue-oscon05.html

Read through the presentation and find gpart which is a MBR and partition table recovery tool. The presentation has instructions on how to use gpart.

[pezz453]

Thanks again.

[Harry Kuhman]

I think my MBR is F'ed.
Solutions?
Just the mbr and not ther rest of sector zero (the partition table)? Then just replace it. You could do that with the old DOS fdisk with the command fdisk /mbr. Or you could write something more useful to the sector, like SBM (http://btmgr.webframe.org/).