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From: emerys@wam.umd.edu (Sean Emery)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: What happens if I install Win95
Date: 22 Sep 1995 13:31:46 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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In article <42sgia$1m0@merlion.singnet.com.sg>,
Brian Tan <syscom@singnet.com.sg> wrote:

>I've tried, and Win95 wipe out the MBR.
>
>I did a long way to fixed this: add a 2nd hard disk, install a minimal 
>FreeBSD on 2nd harddisk. (need to specify partition for both harddisk, but 
>just creating new label on 2nd.)  Anyone had a better way to recover 
>FreeBSD MBR?

ARRRGH.  I found a nice little utility that fixes the MBR, but it CANNOT
be run from a DOS-shell.  You must "Restart in MS-DOS mode" then you can
run this utility.  It is called bteasy14.zip.   I don't exactly remember
where I got it, but I'm sure that it is archie-able.  Be careful when
running this kind of utility, make backups if you can!!!

Good luck.

-sean.