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Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 07:29:44 +0000
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From: "Ian 'DrDebug' Day" <Ian AT darkblak DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Subject: Re: [opendos] WTF!!!  OpenDOS farked my system!!!
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In article <199701300624 DOT AA18473 AT mail DOT crl DOT com>, Weiqi Gao
<weiqigao AT crl DOT com> writes
>_MoZ_ <zoul AT alpha DOT pulsar DOT net> wrote:
>
>>>>>>>>>
>[to paraphrase]  I installed OpenDOS on top of NT on a five partition 6GB
>hard drive.  NT now won't boot, not even with the rescue diskette.  It only
>boot OpenDOS.  I uninstalled OpenDOS.  Now my machine wouldn't boot at all.
> I than installed MS-DOS, then NT.  But "NT would not install, because it
>said the MS DOS portion of the setup could not detect a hard drive, or
>something like that..."
>So I repartitioned the hard drive, and I can see everything through DOS. 
>"But NT still cannot detect whatever it is looking for...".
>
>"SOME ONE PLEASE HELP ME.. I AM BEGGING OF YOU... HELP!!!"
>>>>>>>>>
>
>MoZ,
>Do you really need to install MS-DOS before you install NT?  What is it
>that NT cannot detect?
>
>People,
>1.  Think it through before you do anything.
>2.  Don't panic.  Don't act on your panic.
>3.  When in doubt, ask the group first.  Someone, somewhere in the world
>has already gone through what you are experiencing, many times over.
>4.  Critical systems should have a set of backup, which, in case the
>computer is destroyed, can be used to restore to a similarly equipt
>machine.

Indeed.  THe same thing happened to me.  You can recover by using the
backup file @BOOTSEC.UI and writing the contents to the boot sector of
drive C: (use Norton's DISKEDIT).

And if you write the current boot contents (before previous measure) to
BOOTSECT.DOS, then you should be able to boot OpenDOS too.

DrDebug

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