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- From: mba@tandon.com (Michael Ben-Ari (mba@tandon.com))
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Subject: Re: Experiment in booting NT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.232238.25551@tandon.com>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 23:22:38 GMT
- References: <137670012@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
- Organization: Tandon Corporation, Moorpark, CA
- Lines: 48
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- In article <137670012@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> mike-b@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Michael Bishop) writes:
- >I have one hard disc which is divided between the C: (primary DOS)
- >partition, and the D: (extended DOS) partition. I intalled NT to
- >the D: partition using the dos2nt batch file. Everything worked okay
- >after the installation.
- >
- >As an experiment, I backed up both partitions onto tape (using a
- >CMS Jumbo 250 tape unit), then reformated both partitions using DOS
- >("format c: /s" and "format d:"). Then, I restored both partitions
- >from the tape backup.
- >
- >Well, it wasn't that surprising to see that the NT bootloader was no
- >longer starting up at boot time. Instead, DOS boots up normally. This
- >is because the DOS format command rewrites the boot sector on the DOS
- >primary partition. The NT boot loader has no way of getting started.
- >
- >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?
- >
- >My motivation is simply to have better control over my disc drive for
- >booting, defragmentation, and the correct restoration of files and
- >boot sectors.
-
- Again, back to CI$.... there is a file that was uploaded in either
- the WINNT or MSWIN32 forum (I don't quite recall which) called BOOTSECT.ZIP
- or something like that which will do just what you ask....
-
- If you can't find it, I will see if I can uuencode it and email it to
- you... Let me know!
-
- -Mike
-
- >
- >Thanks for the help.
- >
- >Michael Bishop
- >Hewlett-Packard Company
- >Internet: mike-b@fc.hp.com
-
-
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