need boot sector help rapid!!

[Cordless 0]

dear knowledgeable ones, I have had to fdisk my primary partition since it died on me last week, however, along with the fdisk went my boot loader for 2k server. I have tried to do a repair but the installer won't find 2k and I have lost the emergency disk. Is there any way that I can restore my 2kserver installation without loosing all the data on that partition?? I have about 200MB free on the NTFS partition. thanks

Kim

[clutch 1]

IF you were just using the fdisk-ed partition for the boot loader on this installation, then you can save it. Check out this link (but you need an NT box to do it):

 

http://www.ntfaq.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=14716&SearchString=boot%20disk

 

If you can't get to an NT box, maybe someone here has a floppy image writer (I have a reader that will read an image and write it to floppy, but I don't know how it works with NT boot disks) that could send you an image.

 

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Regards,

 

clutch

[euankirkhope 0]

There are two options.

 

Boot partition is NOT NTFS

 

goto www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm

 

and download bootpart.

 

run bootpart from dos (or winnt) not 9x use /? switch for instructions but I think you do

 

bootpart winnt rewriteroot:c:

 

If the partition is NTFS. your pretty much up Sh** creak without the EBD. I would try installing win2k on another partiton this will then write a common bootloader in the primary location (where it was before). Then the other installation should be back in the menu. If for some chance the original installation is not listed use the bootpart from within winnt to add it to the bootmanager:

 

bootpart winnt WindowsNTsBackagain bootimge.nt

[Yearout 0]

This might be a long way around the barn but it happened to me one time. I did the bootpart and it did not work so I fdisk /mbr and then installed win2k untill it frist reboots then my boot menu was back and just reset the timer for 3sec to 30 and deleted the temp files..