Windows MBR floppy

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  1. 24giovanni

    24giovanni Banned

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    Is it good idea to make an MBR bootable floppy disk? If so, on each OS do they vary?

    TIA
     
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  2. hitman012

    hitman012 Minimodder

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    What do you mean exactly? A bootable rescue disk? The formats for bootable disks (MBR, location of bootloader, partition tables etc.) conform to a standard, but rescue disks for individual operating systems will work only with that particular OS.
     
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  3. 24giovanni

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    someone told me it's good to have a bootable MBR floppy disk so I thought I would ask the forum for it's opinion. Yes, a bootable rescue disk for MBR only.
     
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    MBR = master boot record, can fix some problems with FDISK /mbr command.

    But
    http://www.cknow.com/vtutor/FDISKMBR.html
     
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