LAST EDITED ON Aug-25-06 AT 08:46 PM (EDT) by ADZIRK (moderator)
 
Dear Sir

I take it you want to save the MBR to file on floppy (or other drive)

mbrworks can do this
Norton utilities and antivirus can do this.
Partitiontable and bootrecord gets saved to the rescue disk, and this is the method I have used most.
gdisk can do this (comes with ghost)
PQ-magic can do this

anyway, I just copied the system root files from XP to a freshly formatted "stiffy".
(to do this, folderoptions must be set to show system files and hidden files.)
Just like the article mentioned, that stiffy then booted right into XP.
This system does not have a dual-boot option, but I am sure that it would have shown the bootmenu... After all, in 98/XP dualboot, when you format win98 partition (or delete these files), you don't get that bootmenu no more.

I am NOT sure about what it would do with LILO