http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record
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Realtime Bootloader?
Does there exist a bootloader which can scan your disks for operating systems on startup, rather than requiring manual setting up of the bootloader?
This would make it very easy for a layperson to ...
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Incorrect disk size reported for internal drive after attempting to boot from external drive
I wanted to run something off of my old Windows XP install, so I plugged it in as an external hard drive and attempted to boot from it. The machine blue screened on me. (I now know this is a bad ...
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Recover truecrypt partition without MBR + recovery disk?
I destroyed my mbr and have no truecrypt rescue disk. However, I do know my password and my encryption setup (e.g. hashing functions and ciphers used).
This happened after an upgrade to version 7.0a ...
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Getting rid of a GPT signature without touching MBR [closed]
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GParted errors on MBR Disk, Claims it's GPT. (It's mistaken, but why?)
I have a disk that seems to contain both an MBR and a GPT. When trying to access the ...
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Which drive's MBR does the Windows 7 installer overwrite?
Is it the first drive listed? Or is it the drive the C:\ partition belongs to?
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Want to remove 2nd disk but MBR needs to be moved. How do I do it?
I have a laptop with two HD, the second one was added later. I had Windows Server 2008 installed on the first disk (0) and thn added the second disk (1).
Next I installed Windows 7 on the second disk ...
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How to manually edit mbr to recover lost partition?
I have accidentally deleted two hfs+ partitions.
I know start and end sectors of both of them. These partitions are 100% healthy. I can see them in Raise Data Recovery, but testdisk does not see them.
...
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Migrating Windows 7 to new hard drive/partition
So, I'be managed to migrate my Windows 7 data over from /dev/sdb3 to a new partition on /dev/sdc1 using ntfsclone. I managed to resize the volume size to match the new partition size. I also used ...
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How do I restore Windows 7 Master Boot Disk Record without CD Drive? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Restore Win 7 MBR without Recovery/Install Disc
This is how to restore Windows 7 MBR (relies on CD Drive).
But I need to do this with a netbook, how do I restore the MBR ...
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Copy just the 64 byte partition table using dd
Given:
===MBR INFO===
MBR SECTOR NAME BYTES
code area 440(max. 446)
disk signature (optional) 4
Usually nulls; 0x0000 2
Table of primary partitions 64(Four ...
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How do I create an MBR on a USB stick using DD command line tool
Okay I'm trying to create a BOOTABLE Windows7 image on a USB key from a Mac running Lion. My image is .iso format. I tried:
sudo dd if=/Users/myusername/Win7.iso of=/dev/disk1 bs=1m
And this ...
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Need to fix Windows MBR without using a CD
I have a laptop which was Linux/Windows 7 dual-boot. I need to get rid of the Linux partition so that it only boots into windows.
I know how to do this if I have the Windows 7 CD(which I do). But ...
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Windows 7 not booting, could not restore boot record
After not using Windows 7 for a month (and a few Ubuntu 11.10 updates being applied), I found I'm no longer able to boot from GRUB2 to Windows.
I've tried to reinstall GRUB2, and have done some other ...
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Corrupt MBR in RAID-0 setup - Missing Operating System
I have a 2x500GB RAID-0 setup on an Asus M4A785TD-V EVO Motherboard.
Recently, I was doing regular cleaning and after assembling up again the PC started normal.
But on the next boot, it suddenly gave ...
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Boot Failed after XP Installation, fixmbr give BSOD
I have installed Windows XP with SP2 on my PC. However, after reboot to complete the installation, I get error message "Disk read error. Press any key to restart". I've try to boot into recovery ...
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Half-installed Windows 7, how to restore Windows XP bootloader
I was going to install Windows 7 on my old pc, however I decided against it half way through the installation (just after first reboot) and I cancelled it. Then I worked out that I can press F8 then ...
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Recover data from Dynamic Disk (MBR) bigger than 2TB
Here is the situation: Promise Array FastTrak TX4310 with 3 disks (750 GB each) in RAID5. This comes to around 1500 GB of data.
Last week I had the idea of expanding the RAID with an additional 750 ...
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Backing up MBR on laptop disks with recovery partiitions?
Most of the Linux distributions I use allow me to override where GRUB is installed, but I now need to install Ubuntu on some Dell Latitude laptops, and on the test install I did on my old Vaio ...
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How do you read a HEX partition table?
I'd like to know how to read a partition table to find out useful information such has how many partitions are on the drive, the size of the partitions and things like its starting and ending LBA ...
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How to recovery Windows 7 MBR with only Lenovo recovery disk (without Windows 7 installation disk)
I have a Lenovo T420 with Windows 7 64-bit Home Premium installed. I only have 4 recovery discs which is made when I got the laptop. There is no original Windows 7 installation disc.
Now I messed up ...
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Netbook Windows 7 recovery
I have an Asus 1005PE netbook which I installed Ubuntu on as a second partition a while back. Its primary partition is Windows 7 Starter. I've now upgraded to a bigger laptop and am selling this ...
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Changed the drive letter of a non system partition and now the machine won't boot
My girlfriend's Windows 7 netbook had a partition with the letter V. I don't know where it came from no what it is. It contained a couple of files including command.com which is from pre Windows XP I ...
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How to remove Ubuntu, that is alongside Win7 on a bootcamp partion without screwing up MBR/Refit?
I had this awesome setup, OSX, and Win7 on the bootcamp partition.
Windows was booting fine in VMWare Fusion until... I've tried to triple boot by adding an Ubuntu partition.
Now I've got reFit ...
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Restore Windows XP MBR without Windows XP disc
Is there a clone of the windows recovery console for windows xp because I no longer have the disc to restore the MBR. I also need to be able to run this off a flash drive because my dvd reader is ...
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Windows 7 crashed at loading - mbr might be corrupted
I have Windows 7 and ubuntu at my desktop pc.
Windows are installed on the ssd and ubuntu on a hdd.
When I powered on my desktop, Windows Boot Manager used to come up with 2 options(Windows/ubuntu).
...
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How to see if USB stick has MBR?
I have a USB stick supposed to be bootable, but the computer does not boot it. I suspect that there is no MBR (Master Boot Record).
How do I test if this is so, preferably from command line in ...
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How can I fix the MBR on my hard drive?
I've tried to use fixmbr (from the Windows XP Recovery Console) and pointed it to C:\, but broke it!
Now I have:
D:\Windows - with no ntldr
C:\ - broken inaccessible partition with Grub and ntldr
...
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How to write to both GPT and MBR manually?
I have a big deal here. I have a MacBook with 3 partitions:
HFS partition for Mac OS X 10.6
NTFS partition for Windows 7 64-Bit
NTFS partition for my documents
It thus works with both GPT and ...
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Arch installation success, but only a blinking cursor appears [closed]
Installation was flawless and I used the entire hdd. Changed the values of the image and initramfs to point to the corect kernel.
USB boots correctly and the hdd can be mounted(by the live enviroment) ...
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What are the differences between MBR vs GPT vs any other partition scheme?
Can anyone tell me what the main differences between i.e. MBR vs GPT or any other partition scheme are? Why would one choose one over the other?
I am not an expert but from new release of Mac OS X ...
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How to make a floppy image and overwrite the MBR
I am trying to make a floppy image with a working file system so that I can test a 2 stage boot loader. When I attempt to mount the floppy and then cp the second binary over to it, mount gets all ...
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How do I create a Windows 7 system image?
I have to create a disk image of Windows 7 with all the installed applications on it, so I can restore this image later.
I am modifying my partition scheme from MBR to GUID partition table, and ...
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Modifying from MBR to GUID partition for OSX Lion installation
Recently, Apple released OS X Lion and when I tried to install it on my mac machine, it gave me an error saying my machine partition table is not using GUID partition table. Instead, the current ...
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Corrupted the hard drive after planned write of RAMDisk image to SD card went awry
I was trying to write a RAMDisk image to my SD card but unfortunately I wrote the image to my hard disk instead. The size of the RAMDisk image is about 7 MB (approximately 16000+ sectors) and it was ...
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Install Windows 7 on a disk containing MBR for another OS while preserving the second OS in place
I have 2 hard disk drives, c:\ (80 gb) and d:\ (300 gb)
Current Windows XP installation is on the second disk (D), but MBR is on the first (C) disk.
I want to format the C (first) disk and install ...
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How do I fix my MBR when windows 7 system recovery shows no drive
I accidentally pulled the power plug when my system was starting up, and I started to get a boot error after POST. Something like "something not found, insert a bootable disk and press enter"
So I ...
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Truecrypt, windows 7 and grub 2 - pre-boot authentication (whole partition encryption) with separate windows boot partition
Currently I have following set up:
sda1 - SYSTEM_DRV (from what I understand it is Windows bootloader for multiple systems + some tools)
sda2 - Windows7OS (the system itself)
sda3 - Windows recovery ...
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Editing MBR for flash device
I have a flashing system for a tablet what got an internal SD card to be formatted on every flash. Basically, it writes an MBR file to it, instead of using a partitioning app (fdisk, or anything), and ...
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Recreate faulty MBR
I was in the process of reinstalling Windows 7, and somehow the MBR (Master Boot Record) was edited by fault (whilst deleting partitions on the two hard drives using GParted).
Now I can't get the ...
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How to scan and remove MBR viruses?
Once I read that the Windows 7 installation disc could clean an infected MBR. I also found an article that suggested one tool to scan the MBR for viruses. And I also read that one MBR virus could ...
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Modifying MBR entries after implementing Windows 7 image
I have a computer whose hard disk I recently formatted. As soon as I implement a .wim image in the computer using the WindowsPE disc with imagex utility, two entries are shown in the mbr menu: one for ...
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Problem when booting debian
I am trying to setup a home server running Debian. I set up the partitions manually using gparted with the drive connected to a usb caddy on another PC, used debbootstrap to get the base file system. ...
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Re-installing Windows on MacBook Pro
I have triple boot installed. Everything works smoothly, but Windows is crying for re-install (overfilled registry, too many programs installed). Before MacBook Pro I would typically create another ...
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Fixmbr on attached notebook hard drive - possible?
I have a blue screen on my notebook during boot and can't get to the recovery console.
I've removed the hard drive from the notebook and inserted it into another PC. Can I use fixmbr on the hard ...
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Operating System Not Found - BIOS recognizes, Live OS doesn't (Laptop)
Here's the deal:
I have a multi-partitioned hard drive on my laptop set up with GRUB. I got a blue-screen while working on Windows 7 and when rebooting I got the Operating System Not Found error ...
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Disk boot failure in Windows 7 64-bit after installing the latest NVIDIA drivers
I successfully installed the newest NVIDIA drivers (275.33) in Windows 7 64-bit and rebooted afterwards just in case. After the reboot, I got an error about missing MBR. I disconnected the slave disk ...
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How to restore WindowXP loader within running Windows?
How can i restore WindowXP loader after installation of boot manager(GRUB, LILO,..).
I can boot to windows, so it may be restored within windows enviroment.
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Is it possible to have more than one MBR in a system?
To my understanding, an MBR on a single device (i.e. hard drive) outlines the primary partitions on that device as well as provides code that can be injected into it that points to the boot loader for ...
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Computer will not boot up under any mode
It started yesterday when my computer randomly shut down (very quickly).
I had not installed anything, and the computer didn't overheat, I was just watching videos.
When I started it back up, it was ...
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Data recovery needed with a Sector Zero problem on a HDD
I left my computer (running XP) copying files to an external drive. After returning a few hours later, the laptop was pretty hot and had frozen.
I forced a reboot, and the laptop HDD hasn't worked ...
