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Hello All:
Please help with this.  I need to know if I can recover my original os.
Here's the deal:

x86 oem box w/ winME pre-installed.  Made the two boot diskettes to run a
burned copy of FreeBSD 4.5 iso .  WinME on ad0, with intention of installing
4.5 on ad1. Because my cd-rom was not recognized I could not install
FreeBSD.  However, I overwrote the mbr in a rash move.  Now I can't boot
winME, but can see the files from dos.  My question is:
if I DO install FreeBSD on ad1, can I 'mount' winME from it?  As far as I
know the mbr is the only thing I've done to ad0.
Please help.

Thanks

From dos
C:
Fdisk /mbr

Should restore the mbr.

You can mount fat32 partitions in BSD.
Try burning the BSD iso and see if your bios can be set to boot from the CD.
It's much easier than messing with floppies.

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I've read
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-blocks...
and think I know the answer.  However, I DID run an fdisk /mbr on ad0,
afterwhich I tried to boot from dos, which was a no-go.  In addition, I
can't SEE the disk if I slave it.  However, I am
guessing that if I run the two boot diskettes again and select "write mbr"
during the partition phase of the install then everything will be ok.
Is this so?
Anxiously awaiting knowledgeable replies,

Ergo Sum

Quote:> Hello All:
> Please help with this.  I need to know if I can recover my original os.
> Here's the deal:

> x86 oem box w/ winME pre-installed.  Made the two boot diskettes to run a
> burned copy of FreeBSD 4.5 iso .  WinME on ad0, with intention of
installing
> 4.5 on ad1. Because my cd-rom was not recognized I could not install
> FreeBSD.  However, I overwrote the mbr in a rash move.  Now I can't boot
> winME, but can see the files from dos.  My question is:
> if I DO install FreeBSD on ad1, can I 'mount' winME from it?  As far as I
> know the mbr is the only thing I've done to ad0.
> Please help.

> Thanks

Quote:> However, I DID run an fdisk /mbr on ad0,
> afterwhich I tried to boot from dos, which was a no-go. In addition, I
> can't SEE the disk if I slave it. However, I am
> guessing that if I run the two boot diskettes again and select "write mbr"
> during the partition phase of the install then everything will be ok.
> Is this so?

You should try to run fdisk /mbr a couple of times...
It helped me before ;)