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How can I extract the Windows 2000 boot sector?

Well, assuming you have Window 2000 installed on /dev/hda, you can extract the boot sector from there by doing:

dd if=/dev/hda of=2kboot.dat bs=512 count=1

BTW, don't be too surprised that the file is so small. OK?

Last updated on 2004-02-11 14:00:00 -0800, by Shalom Craimer

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