Master Boot Record

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In regards to a HDD's Master Boot Record (MBR), is running fdisk /mbr from a
Win9x boot disk the same as running the fixboot and fixmbr commands from the
Recovery Console? Thanks...Bob
 
from the wonderful said:
In regards to a HDD's Master Boot Record (MBR), is running fdisk /mbr from a
Win9x boot disk the same as running the fixboot and fixmbr commands from the
Recovery Console? Thanks...Bob
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No. Fdisk gives you a Win9x MBR, the WinXP one is different (and the
Win2k pro one is, iirc, slightly different yet again). I think you won't
get to multiboot using boot.ini with a Win9x style MBR, you'll just leap
straight into Win9x (well, into DOS, from which Win9x gets loaded).
 
In regards to a HDD's Master Boot Record (MBR), is running fdisk /mbr
from a
Win9x boot disk the same as running the fixboot and fixmbr commands from the
Recovery Console?

Bob:

The fdisk /mbr cmd and the fixmbr cmds replace the bootstrap code in the
MBR, whereas the fixboot cmd replaces the partition boot loader code.

Generally, the bootstrap code in the MBR is not Windows op system specific,
whereas the partition boot loader code is op system specific..
I have used both of the following successfully on a dual boot computer
(Win9x and XP Pro) to replace the code in the MBR:
Fdisk /mbr via Win98 SE floppy boot
Fixmbr via RConsole
 
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