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Stranded without boot floppy?
- To: thinkpad@cs.utk.edu
- Subject: Stranded without boot floppy?
- From: Stephen Mosley <mosleys@UCS.ORST.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 15:42:37 -0800 (PST)
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My floppy drive for my TP701c got misplaced, so I ordered one from IBM
but they don't expect one in until after 1997.
In the meantime, I need a way to restore the MBR on the hard drive to get
my papers off ASAP (the ones I had not yet backed up onto ZIP) I was
using LILO on the MBR and foolishly tried to uninstall it, now the
internal HD won't boot.
Does anyone out there know of a way to restore the MBR of the HD without
a floppy drive? Can anyone out there loan or sell me a floppy drive before
1997? Is there a way to fix the HD from the CMOS? Is there any other way
of booting the TP701c to fix a HD with a bad MBR w/o using a floppy
drive? Any help or clues welcome.
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Stephen Mosley
541-737-4514
mosleys@ucs.orst.edu