First post, by Syntho
I have an image of a Win98 install that doesn't include the boot sector apparently. I used Symantec Ghost to image it, but I think there's an additional flag to copy over the boot information which I left alone. Isn't that how I was supposed to do it?
Anyway this other drive I have had a new partition created, the Ghost image restored, and it wouldn't boot. I spent a while looking up how to fix it, like fdisk /mbr, but it didn't work. Instead of posting here, I decided to just a fresh copy of Win98 on the partition, which would obviously put in a new MBR. It works fine now, including after I put the aforementioned image on it. It was quicker to just install Windows again so that a new MBR would be put on the drive than it was trying to figure out how to fix it somehow else.
So for future reference, if this same situation happens again, how can I more easily create a new MBR/boot sector or whatever it is? Maybe there's a program somewhere that can fix drives easily like that. I'm not sure EasyBCD fools with old drives and operating systems.
