[ale] MBR rebuilder ?

[jlangseth at esisys.com (Jacob Langseth)]

On Monday, July 06, 1998 6:19 PM, Nomad the Wanderer [SMTP:nomad at orci.com] 
wrote:
> Ok,
>   Who is a good C programmer in Dos?  I'm fed up with 95 and 98.  They
> still have that "design flaw" that overwrites teh MBR... imagine that.
> Anyone here willing to write a proggy that given a -r will read the
> contents of the mbr and given a -w will write it back so I don't have
> to go through the rescue disk stuff to rebuild my box?  It wouldn't be
> such a big deal, but I don't have a floppy in it right now...

One possibility would be to create a boot/root disk (ala
ancient slackware) and stick dd on it.
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/fd0 block_size=512 count=1, iirc

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Jacob Langseth <jlangseth at esisys.com>
Enhanced Systems, Inc.