How Do You Repair A Corrupted Master Boot Record (MBR)?
If you are planning modifying the Master Boot Record (MBR) on your computer, then you should know how to repair the MBR incase something goes wrong. This article will give you a couple techniques on repairing the MBR. Step 1 If you are using Linux on your computer system, then you would restart your system with the LiveCD in the cd-drive. Ensure that cdrom/dvdrom is the boot item that your computer looks to load an OS. Once the LiveCD has loaded, you simply re-install the Grub boot-loader. Step 2 I f your operating system (OS) is one of the OS offered by Microsoft and you have a bootable floppy disk with FDisk.exe on it, then you boot your system with the floppy disk. After the DOS has disk has loaded, type in the following at the prompt: “fdisk mbr”. This will repair the MBR on the first hard drive. Note: You may have to go into the BIOS and change the Boot order so that the floppy appears on the list before the hard drive. Step 3 If your OS is Windows 95/98/98 SE/ME/NT/2000 you have
