[Tfug] MBR problems

[johngalt]

If you are desparate enough and wouldn't mind sacrificing the Linux install
in order to get rid of the NTLDR Missing problem, you might try (gasp) DOS
utilities.

(works on other than IBM drives)
Zap zeros the Master Boot Record and the first Partition Boot Record. It can
be used with both SCSI and IDE drives
http://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/hddtech/zap.exe

Wipe is a DOS software utility that writes zeroes to every sector on a hard
disk drive up to 8 GB
http://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/hddtech/wipe.exe
More details....
http://www.chicorporation.com/support/IBM.html

If you don't have DOS....
http://www.drdos.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Downloads&file=index&req=vi
ewdownload&cid=1
(don't know how you'd get this if you didn't have dos to extract and build
it )
maybe you could use rawrite on the images....

http://www.freedos.org/

But then if you had DOS, you could fdisk /mbr to overwrite ntldr in the mbr



Keith Davey wrote:
> Hi Gang,
>
> I am trying to convert an ageing win2k box over to linux after the
> win2k system crashed with NTLDR missing.  However after what apears
> to have been a succesfull install of linux, a reboot still gives me
> nothing but:
>
> NTLDR Missing
>
> I tried to correct this by issuing  dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512
> count=1
>
> But even after this I still get NTLDR Missing.
>
> Any clues as to how I might clear this error?
>
> Keith Davey
> Storage Systems Div
> IBM Corp
>
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