[nflug] Disk Image/Restore

[Cyber Source]

Jonathan Skulski wrote:
>> If you were to completely write zeros to the entire drive, then copy in
>> your 98 or xp, you would not have to blank the mbr, it would just fire
>> up. We've only done this stuff a thousand times around here. What I do
>> know, is that it doesn't hurt to run either fixmbr or fdisk /mbr to make
>> sure that the previous mbr is not an issue with the new copy.
>
> What do you mean copy your 98 or xp? Install it? dd from another
> drive? Copy the folder from another drive? The first two options would
> work, but it would also copy over the mbr. The last option would fail
> to boot.
>
> A mbr of all zeros will fail to boot windows.  From the wikipedia
> article for Master Boot Record:
>
> "In DOS or Windows 9x, the DOS-mode program fdisk with the
> (undocumented) switch /mbr will rewrite the MBR code. In Windows 2000
> or later, the recovery console can be used to write new MBR code to a
> hard drive."
>
> I zero'd the mbr out and it fails to boot. I don't know what kind of
> moon computers you're using, but these ones failed to boot. These are
> some new dells running xp, i don't know. Maybe it's a win98 thing.
>
> Sorry this is getting off topic, but zeroing out your mbr is not a
> good way to get windows to boot.
>
> jsk
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IF you READ the entire thread, you would see what the original questions 
were and how my answers related. Why don't you try reading the threads 
and understanding what the questions were before offering up your answers.
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