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- From: brad@huey.Jpl.Nasa.GOV (Brad Hines)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Subject: Re: Experiment in booting NT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.212732.21992@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 21:27:32 GMT
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- In article <137670012@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>, mike-b@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Michael Bishop) writes:
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- My question is: Can I reinstall the NT boot loader without reinstalling
- the entire NT system again?
-
- And the corollary question: Can I uninstall the NT bootloader without
- having to use DOS to reformat the primary DOS partition?
-
- Michael Bishop
- Hewlett-Packard Company
- Internet: mike-b@fc.hp.com
-
- ****
-
- You can use Norton utilities or the like to read the boot sector and save
- it to a file. You can do this for both DOS (before installing NT) and
- for NT. Then you can use Norton to write the desired boot sector back
- into place whenever you want it. However, having deleted the NT boot
- sector, you're going to have to install it again to get its boot sector
- back.
-
-
- --
- Brad Hines
- Internet: brad@huey.jpl.nasa.gov
- Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, California
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