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to: Rob Judd
from: Chris Halliday
date: 1996-09-20 19:38:00
subject: Boot Sector Fault

RJ> Anyone know how to repair a dead boot sector on a HPFS partition ? I've
RJ> had a multi-io card die and in the process of trying to get it to work
RJ> my HDD has become unable to boot.

RJ> Is there an OS/2 command like 'sys' or similar ? It boots off floppy,
RJ> but goes straight to the prompt. CHKDSK doesn't help.

Hello Rob,

Use FDISK /NEWMBR. It's an undocumented feature, but it's there, and it
works!

Chris

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