Scott Silva wrote on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:49:42 -0700: > I am wondering if any standard Microsoft boot sector might work. I could > probably e-mail you a CD image of a dos 7.1 bootdisk if "fdisk /mbr" would > work. I have never tried it, and maybe I'll quickly fire up a VM image of XP > and try it. This won't work as it doesn't know what to load next. In case this info helps Robert: You need the XP (or NT) MBR plus the following files in the root of the boot disk: boot.ini, NTDETECT.COM, ntldr These are in the root of any XP file system and can just be copied. boot.ini contains which harddisk partition to boot and may need editing according to the partition structure on the disk. This will then load from any bootable disk (floppy, USB, harddisk) and subsequently load the OS on that partition. On a non-encrypted filesystem. You can make a bootable diskette (with that MBR) from within XP by formatting the diskette and checking the option to make it a system disk. However, I doubt this will work for USB sticks etc. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com