the incantation to restore the boot partition when winows attacks

My daughter has a problem with windows attacking her boot sector (though
this is usually because it tells her to give it a bunch of disks to
restore it).

What is the incantation to restore the boot sector?

It appears from TFM that

fdisk -B /dev/ad0

and then answering yes to both questions should do it, but it does not.

Do I need to use -b as well to use one of the other files in /boot? and
which one, boot, boot0, boot1, or boot2?

thanks

hawk
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