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- From: rion@Ingres.COM (Rion Cassidy (x3357) OGT)
- Subject: Re: Experiment in booting NT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.015911.14745@pony.Ingres.COM>
- Reply-To: rion@Ingres.COM (Rion Cassidy )
- Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501
- References: <137670012@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> <1992Sep1.212732.21992@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 01:59:11 GMT
- Lines: 37
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- I posted this before, but a lot of people just tune in for a quick question
- and didn't see it the first time. The flexboot question keeps coming up
- so here's the answer again:
-
-
-
- It's a relatively simple matter to get the boot sector back in the right
- place, but the files you'll need are on the NT CD, not on your hard disk. I
- suggest that you put them in a FAT partition NOW so that you can get things
- fixed quickly after a disk crash. Even if you can reinstall NT quickly, the
- configuration can be very time consuming.
-
- On the NT CD, go to the directory \dos2nt\install. You will need the
- following files:
-
- saveboot.sec
- ntboot.sec
- insert.sec
- debug.exe
-
- Create a batch file that contains the following:
-
- ren bootsec.dos btsecdos.bak
- debug < saveboot.sec
- debug ntboot.sec < insert.sec
-
- This similar to what "NT2DOS.BAT" does, but obviously we want to skip copying
- all those files.
-
- This worked for me and saved the time and trouble of having to reinstall all
- of NT again. Keep in mind that this is designed to work ONLY where the files
- are all there, but the boot sector is misplaced.
-
- I guess the good folks at MicroSoft forgot about people's disks crashing and
- didn't think to provide this batch file.
-
- Rion Cassidy
-