Everything's cool. ;)
You see, the _real_ reason I panicked is that I was certain I didn't have a WinMe (the version, BTW-- sorry I didn't specify) boot floppy anywhere. Or if I did, there was no telling in which cardboard box of other woefully obsolete stuff it ended up in.
As it turns out, there was a dusty old boot floppy in a box of diskettes in my bottom desk drawer. Sometimes it pays to be a pack rat.
Thanks for your help everyone. Here's hoping I don't post another Windows-related question in here for a very long time. ;)
Bryan Phinney wrote:
On Sunday 18 July 2004 05:44 pm, Marv Boyes wrote:
Is there any hope of fixing this, so that I can boot Windows-- as installed --on that drive? Or am I facing a reinstall here? Any help would be greatly appreciated; thanks very much in advance.
You didn't mention which version of windows you are running.
WinXP, 2K, NT - Boot from the Windows CD, Choose Rescue mode and go to console. Type fixmbr and allow it to recreate the windows bootloader. Remove CD and restart.
Win98, ME, and other 16 bit versions, Boot from the CD or boot floppy, get to a command prompt and type fdisk /mbr (IIRC) and that should recreate the windows boot sector on the hard drive.
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