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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uhog.mit.edu!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!msdd+ From: Mark R Sibenac <sibster+@CMU.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: how to reinstall boot program? Date: Tue, 27 Dec 1994 22:18:57 -0500 Organization: Sophomore, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 18 Message-ID: <wj0BYVm00WBMI1lEl7@andrew.cmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: po5.andrew.cmu.edu hello, i was messing around with the norton utilites in dos the other day with speed-disk -- big mistake. now, i can't boot my net-bsd partition. i still have floppies for net-bsd, but i can't mount my harddrive so i can fix the file-system or back it up or whatever. how do i access the harddrive after booting from the installation floppies? if i reinstall, will that wipe all of my not-backed up stuff on my bsd partition? basically, how can i get to my bsd partition on my harddrive? i can't boot off of the harddrive, but i can from floppies. any help would be appeciated......thanks mark