Is the Partition Table considered part of the MBR? As far as I understand, the Master Boot Code is followed by the PT, and they both reside in the first sector of the disk, but to be exact on terms, ...
So I do an fdisk /mbr to hopefully replace his master boot record, but this does nothing. Next, I used sys.com to copy the bootable files off of the startup diskette on the hard drive's boot sector.