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Transfering Boot Sector
Name: myststix Date: November 22, 2006 at 20:41:37 Pacific OS: Win98SE CPU/Ram: Pentium 120/80MB Product: NEC Mobio MB12c
Comment:
Ok, here is the problem. I want a bigger hard drive. This thing has a 1.6GB drive, the BIOS will accept up to an 8.4GB without overlays being required. But get this. I can figure out how to transfer the boot sector. If I change drives, I get "Boot sector not found". Even if I ghost the drive over. Is there a way to copy a boot sector byte for byte to the second drive? Even if I have to split up the 8.4GB drive into two parts.
Name: jboy Date: November 23, 2006 at 02:11:20 Pacific
Reply:
Well, sure - but there shouldn't be a need
Assuming the drive is error free and seen correctly in the BIOS (and the partition was made active prior to formatting), you could perform a repair by booting from diskette and entering
fdisk /mbr
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