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restore partition w/ fdisk
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fdisk /mbr will write a new master boot record, but will not necessarily fix a damaged boot sector.
If you're booting from a win98 boot floppy, I'd certainly run scandisk on the problem drive first. Then:-
To restore the boot sector you need to run sys C: from the A: prompt. But before you do that, save the file msdos.sys in the root of c: (you'll need to attrib -s -h -r to access it) if it exists, and copy it back after running sys C:.
If it doesn't exist
should help you create it.
If you're booting from a win98 boot floppy, I'd certainly run scandisk on the problem drive first. Then:-
To restore the boot sector you need to run sys C: from the A: prompt. But before you do that, save the file msdos.sys in the root of c: (you'll need to attrib -s -h -r to access it) if it exists, and copy it back after running sys C:.
If it doesn't exist
should help you create it.
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