Questions tagged [mbr]
Master Boot Record (MBR) is a type of boot sector popularized by the IBM Personal Computer. It consists of a sequence of 512 bytes located at the first sector of a data storage device such as a hard disk.
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Partition drive E for install Fedora and keep Windows in the SSD
Take a look to the following partition table that my PC have. For me this is a mess. Right now I want to use E drive and create two partition and I can't because is marked as MBR and also is the ...
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Modifying boot order through MBR?
So I'm trying to modify the boot order on my machine. It seems it could be done through modifying the MBR(I think, not sure), and I haven't been able to find any good resource on how to achieve this.
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Why can I boot from a USB device without "making it bootable"?
It seems like you can boot from a USB device without a bootloader to me.
Even my 6 years old computers that still have a BIOS.
From what I read the BIOS simply looks for an mbr, loads it and ...
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MBR to GPT migration on Windows 7 x64 -- what is the path forward
I use Backup Exec System Recovery to migrate to larger hard drives, to new PCs, etc.
I have painted myself into a new corner, and am looking for the way out.
Situation: I migrated to a new hard ...
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HDD Stopped Responding
I have an external 500GB hard drive containing a WD Scorpio Black, used all as one partition, encrypted with BitLocker and runs very well.
This morning I connected it to my PC, it asked for BitLocker ...
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Bootloaders - Booting an MBR only OS using a UEFI only BIOS
A long time ago, in a computer lab far far away, I stumbled upon a bootloader which dared to cross the boundaries between MBR and EFI.
It's name was Clover.
Using clover, you could boot any number ...
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After a hard restart, I am unable to repair the MBR of my BitLocked drive and don't have the key
Why would Microsoft not build in a password entry widget into the repair process?
How can I save my data? I've tried everything I can think of.
Windows 8.1 Pro (not sure if version N or not, not ...
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How to restore a copy of an MBR back to the original HDD with Windows 7?
This topic is related to my questions 1 and 2, however as I've entered yet another phase of this complex issue, I must ask another standalone question:
How can we copy back an MBR to an HDD with ...
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Booting Windows and Linux across two physical drives
I'm trying to get Windows 7 and Kali Linux bootable on an old laptop, but there are a few considerations that are making it difficult:
1) Windows 7 is on an SSD, while I installed Kali on the ...
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First 32KB of logical partitions. What is there? Consequences of allowing/limiting access to it
This is a very low level disk question, and I have only been working with this stuff for a short time, and it is quite a different learning experience, so pardon any carelessness with terms, ...
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MBR and GPT confusion: installing Debian on macbook air
I'm following this question and trying to install Debian on my MacBook. I've lost that account so I couldn't accept that guy's answer (I'm sorry, I'll not loose this one).
So, I followed with his ...
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MBR error at boot Windows 7
I tried to fix it with the DVD but without a result.
If the boot order is 1 DVD, 2 HDD it asks to boot from Dvd.
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How to resize system reserved partition? Win 7 fails to boot afterward.
Firstly, quick background. I have Win7 x64 Pro. The reason I wanted to resize my system reserved partition is this: http://www.pagestart.com/win7br0x8100003301.html
The Backup & Restore stopped ...
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How to change the partition scheme
I want to change the partition scheme in my 500 GB HDD from MBR to GPT scheme without losing DATA on it. What are the traditional tools to do this on both windows 7 and Linux(ubuntu)? And what are the ...
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Using Clonezilla (or alternate) to make a *partial* full disk image of a multi-partition, multi-boot hdd
So I have a windows multi-boot system with XP installed first, then windows 7. I also have further partitions for user data, etc. I do not fully understand where (and what) data is stored on a pc ...
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Safe to blank MBR of a disk after adding it to an RAID1 array with mdadm?
I created a RAID1 array of two disks, /dev/sda and /dev/sdb, using mdadm. After several booting problems related to the BIOS and SATA/RAID controller of the board, I accidently created some new ...
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My disk at half size after formatting
I'm a long time linux user, I'm also a Windows user, after formatting my brand new USB dongle I get ~30Gb from the partition table available to create a new partition where the nominal capacity of the ...
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Move partitions on disk
In order to install btrfs on my computer, I need a 1mb+ space before the first partition. The First Partition is the boot partition which starts at sector 63, the second partition is the dell recovery ...
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Trying windows 7 dual boot on a windows 8 machine
I have a ThinkPad (T530) with Windows 8.1 with one HDD and this is what I have done to achieve dual boot with Windows 7 on this machine -
On my main and only hard disk I created a new volume (...
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3TB Hard drive stops reading/locks up after a few minutes of use
This has been driving me a little batty lately as i dont understand enough to fix the problem. My HTPC (Windows 7Pro 32bit) currently has two USB HDD plugged in under separate ports. The 2TB is a ...
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Restore MBR to another Disk
My system had Windows and CrunchBang installed. It used GRUB over the Windows boot manager. I now deleted the CrunchBang partitions and want to restore the Windows boot manager.
When I insert the ...
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Cannot Install Boot Camp on a Mac Fusion Drive
I have two drives installed in my MacBoook Pro (Mid-2013). It is running macOS Mavericks (10.9). I set the two drives (an SSD and a regular HD) up using the fusion drive (following the DIY Mac Fusion ...
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Kali/Ubuntu doesn't detect windows partition
I am trying to dual boot Windows 7 with Ubuntu or Kali Linux but i am unable to do so.
I have backed up all my data to an external hard drive. So it is safe to work with partitioning.
I have a 500 ...
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Is there a way to fix this Windows boot issue?
I have a dual-boot system (Windows/Linux) and recently started having trouble booting into Windows. Probably an MBR problem. I can use a GRUB2 bootable CD to access Windows, and Linux boots just fine. ...
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How to reinstall Windows MBR with no Windows listed?
There is nice article how to reinstall windows MBR:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392
however there is a catch. I have Windows system, but when I go with repair mode it is not shown and as the ...
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Backing up MBR - why not restoring the boot code?
I've seen two pages explaining how to backup & restore the MBR:
Linux: How to backup hard disk partition table (MBR)
UNIX / Linux: Copy Master Boot Record (MBR)
They've shown an example with ...
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MBRs, VBRs, and partitioning of storage devices: how and why they vary across device-types?
The wikipedia entry for Boot Sector says this,
CD- ROMs usually have their own structure of boot sectors, for IBM PC compatible systems this is subject to El Torito specifications.
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1TB ext4 Harddrive with 400GB NTFS MBR written by mistake
I was imaging my ext4 1tb storage disk that I had accidentally formatted to NTFS with testdisk and an external usb dock when I had to back out.
Testdisk asked about writing the MBR and I clicked yes. ...
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Ubuntu 12.04/xp dual boot testdisk wrote the wrong mbr to my storage disk
Using disk Utility in Ubuntu 12.04, I inadvertently formatted my 1TB ext4 storage disk to NTFS. I was in the process of doing clean installs so I just pulled the drive and set up a usb hdd dock to ...
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FreeBSD Install DVD changed pmbr to mbr leaving Mac OS X unbootable
Recently I was experimenting with FreeBSD 7.4 i386 Install DVD on a Mac mini Intel 2006 on whose harddisk Mac OS X 10.5.8 was installed. My aim was to just see contents of the harddisk from the ...
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CloneZilla errors when attempting to clone and create partition table proportionally
Carrying on from a question regarding hard drive space on a cloned hard drive, i'm attempting to recover the space using CloneZilla and using the setting -k1, create partition table proportionally. I'...
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How can I duplicate HBCD's XP boot loader with my MBR?
I'm stumped.
I'm migrating a Win XP Lenovo T500 to an SSD:
I copied the XP partition using EaseUS to the SSD.
Aligned the boot sector using Gparted
The MBR needs to be rebuilt (fair enough)
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GRUB2 rescue boot into windows
I had got 2 partitions on my harddrive:
1. win7;
2. Ubuntu 11.10;
As it can be predicted the GRUB loader was in the second partition and this partition was formated from ext4 to ntfs.
Now I get this ...
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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 idea)....
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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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macbook rEFIt dual boot mbr issue
I have ubuntu and osx installed on my macbook. It was working fine up until recently. Now, when I boot I have a 20 second period where it makes the mac boot noise and then proceeds to show a grey ...
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bootmgr missing after restoring with sysresccd
I backed up my laptop months ago. Today i repartition the drive and used sysresccd with partimage to restore the HDD. I got a success msg after restoring however when booting i get a bootmgr missing ...
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Can Windows Bootmgr load Ubuntu without needing a second reboot?
I have Windows 10 on an SSD in a DVD caddy (/dev/sdb) and Ubuntu mate on an HDD (/dev/sda). Both are Legacy BIOS/MBR on a Dell Laptop.
I made a dual boot set up and tested putting GRUB on the Linux ...
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Converting GPT to MBR for 1 partition without losing data from other partitions
Is it possible to convert a single partition from GPT to MBR without losing data from other partitions?
I had installed windwos 10 and Ubuntu as dual boot and i wanted to reinstall windows 10 and ...
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How do I boot into UEFI without going through Windows on my laptop?
So I installed Ubuntu on my Windows 8 laptop in a dual-boot configuration for some time, and tonight, I decided I would uninstall Ubuntu. Well, I've managed to lock myself out of Windows and I'm stuck ...
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How to fix Truecrypt MBR using Command Prompt or Linux live USB?
I was playing with TrueCrypt and decided to make a fresh installation of Windows 7 from USB stick.
Unfortunately Windows 7 installer: "setup was unable to create a new system partition"
My entire ...
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Four partitions on MBR disk
I have four partitions on an MBR disk:
Boot
Win 10 OS
File Storage
WinRE
I have a need to install Windows 10 on the third [File Storage] partition, but I have an error that states Windows on UEFI ...
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MBR to GPT; 25GB Factory Recovery partition for windows; ASUS laptop
I have an ASUS laptop with a 25GB factory recovery partition of 64bit windows on MBR disk drive. Since this partition contains the image of windows 64bit which should support UEFI and GPT, will I be ...
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How to verify my PC is legacy BIOS with no support of EFI?
I want to verify that my old PC is legacy BIOS/MBR only. (Note this is dual boot).
My motherboard is Gigabyte Technology GA-890-FXA-UD5. Checking msinfo32.exe it reports.
BIOS Version/Date Award ...
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I'm having trouble in resetting my Windows 10
I wanted to reset my Windows with keeping the personal files. But during the half process it shows unable to reset this PC. So I thought of clean installing the Windows 10. What I want to know is that ...
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Unable to boot on old PC from Windows 11?
An old PC (MSI P6NGM, Intel Quad Core, 4GB RAM) is unable to boot into Windows 11 installed on a SSD (MBR). The BIOS says, that operating windows cannot be found. I have made sure, that correct ...
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I converted a windows 10 64-bit dynamic disk to basic disk and now it will not boot
I converted my dynamic disk to basic using Aemei Pro, and when restart I get blue screen error message 0xc000000e.
Following advice on this help page, here:
https://www.aomeitech.com/forum/discussion/...
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Cloning a C drive - boot partitions
I have a small C drive with W10 on it on Disc 0, and a D drive with data on it on Disc 1.
I want to move C to a partition on Disc 1 and test Ubuntu on Disc 0.
Both discs have a recovery partition, and ...
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Windows 10 won't boot, primary partition has become RAW
My Dell 5559 laptop shutdown suddenly due to power outage. After that, when I tried to turn it on, it gave an error:
A disk read error occured
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart
I have been looking at all ...
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Can you view the BCD store and determine if the system is using the MBR or GPT?
Can you view the BCD store and determine if the system is using the MBR or GPT partitioning system?
