On Thursday 08 February 2001 16:49, you wrote:
> I've had problems when I tried ' fdisk /mbr ' to remove the boot menu
> and
> restore Windows as the default. A few times, I lost Windows and had to
> do
> a reinstall to get it back. And, it seems to make floppy booting some
> of
> the Linux distros unreliable.
>
Well, if the opportunity arises again... with a Windows boot disk in...
( the right one for the right "flavor" or windows, of course<g>...
Command.com is different between Win98 and Win98 SE, and Me as well.... )
after you do the Fdisk /MBR do a "sys.com C:" from the floppy, this
recopies the system files back onto the Windows partition, it also rewrites
the hooks in MBR. You'll have to copy sys.com from the C:\windows\command\
folder onto the Floppy. HTH...
daniel in NJ...
