Re: [newbie] this is an emergency (lilo, mbr, windows...)Lance READ NOW

[Colin L. Whipple]

On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> Lance
>    No offense meant to Paul but do not follow his advise for repairing your
> MBR. It Will Not Work for Win2000. The only way to restore your MBR or any
> part of Win2000 is if you have created a Win2000 Rescue disk(not the set of
> 4 install disk, but a Rescue disk you made in Win2000). If you boot to your
> Install CD without using the Rescue disk the installer Will Not be able to
> find your existing Win2000 partition and you will not be able to do a
> restore install only a new install. This has happened to me in Win2000 so I
> have first hand knowledge of what I am saying.
>    If you do not have a Rescue disk you will not be able to repair the MBR.

Doesn't that depend on whether the C: partition is FAT or NTFS?

Colin