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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Potential Error with MBR on disk image
I am concerned that the disk image I am looking at has been corrupted or created in error some how. (more specifically the formatting of the disk that the image captured)
The highlighted section in ...
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Dual boot with Grub Ubuntu / Win 10 no longer available with Win10 Ver 1803 update
Dual boot with Grub Ubuntu 16.04 / Win 10 broke when Win 10 automatically updated to Version 1803 in August, 2018. Windows overwrote the Master Boot Record and the Grub menu has disappeared. Ubuntu ...
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Restore Windows NT 3.51 boot loader without system diskettes
I have an old Windows NT 3.51 machine and recently, Windows cannot boot. I do not have any system diskettes to try to restore the MBR from there and the machine doesn't have any usb ports. I only have ...
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OPNSense VGA MBR USB
I want to install OPNSense on my HP DL360 G6 but it only boots USB drives that use MBR partition scheme, not EFI. The VGA img file is EFI, so it doesn't recognize it and doesn't boot. And when I try ...
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About boot sector(s), MBR etc (Windows)
I had a disk that boots with Win-7. On the same computer I installed another hard disk that boots with Win-10.
So now when I launch Windows, I have the choice between Win-7 and Win-10, ok.
Now that ...
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Create MBR Bootable Ubuntu USB from Mac
I need to create an ubuntu 16.04 server install USB from a Mac but the computer I'm installing it to only supports booting from MBR USBs.
It seems when I try dd it makes it an EFI formatted drive.
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Recover MBR after overwriting it with an empty one
I've accidentally messed up my Windows XP hard drive.
I wanted to copy the MBR from this disk to a new SSD, but I've done the opposite. I do not have a shadow copy of that volume and thought that ...
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How can I create 4096 sectors on an MBR drive to match the configuration of older drives in Linux?
Few years ago I bought 2 drives that came pre-formatted with 4096 byte sector and MBR partition table.
Now I bought 3rd drive but as it's more recent revision it came preformatted to GPT. When I'm ...
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Is there one MBR for all partitions on a HDD?
It seems that there is one MBR per physical Disk Drive. I.e., if your MBR on the drive is corrupt then all of the partitions are affected. And before trying to fix the MBR, I should backup the whole ...
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is it possible to convert bitlocker encrypted GPT drive to MBR?
I have found some guides how to do this in diskpart or by using EaseUS partition master, but they don't mention if it would work with Bitlocker.
And before you ask me why I want that - to be able to ...
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windows xp installer cannot create partition in empty slot
I mainly use Linux, and have 3 partitions (which I do not want to change) on my MBR disk. I have one slot available for Windows XP, for occasional use offline, such as updating my BIOS.
How do I ...
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Unable to boot into bootcamp (Windows 7), due to resizing only OSX partition
I have a MacBookPro 2011, OSx 10.9.2, it is dual booted (using bootcamp). I followed this youtube video that shows how to resize mac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhkdOLXT6Eg
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Read only file system after reformatting and repartitiniong
I am facing some issue in my one of hardisk. I have cleaned it completely, scanned it for bad sectors and reformatted it but again it giving me readonly file system error on next day.
Here is ...
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How to restore Windows 10 GPT boot config using command line?
Long story short, windows 10 GPT drive can't boot, and can't access drive in question from command line, only X:\ . I have the option to repair/rebuild MBR using live ISO but its a GPT drive, is this ...
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Legacy Bios PC - What all is required for a MBR hard drive to be bootable? Such as MBR, Boot Sector, Active Partition, Boot Loader, Ect
Speaking about a traditional or "Legacy" BIOS based PC what is all required by the BIOS for the drive to be bootable without going into specific OSs requirements.
I know it needs to have a MBR and a ...
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How do I remove an extra recovery partition
I had an IT person at my company clone my SSD (the old one had failing sectors). When he did so I ended up with 2 recovery partitions, and the second one stops me from making my C: drive larger. I'm ...
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Editing the GPT in MBR
In the master boot record of every computer there is a global partition table that contains the information about the disk partitions .
This partitions will be read by the OS's going to be installed ...
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External HDD Cannot Be Read
I have an interesting situation.
A User brought in her external HDD which she was using to backup data on her MacBook Pro (OSX 10.12.xx), it is a WD EasyStore 1TB HDD. The User recently upgraded her ...
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EaseUS Partition Master has no "Convert GPT to MBR" option
I have two Windows 7 installation USB pen drives and another one with a bootable EaseUS Partition Master program. I tried to load one of the Windows USB disks and it doesn't load at all (no errors, no ...
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Windows couldn't update boot config - Bootcamp OS X 12.6
I'be been trying to install Windows 8.1 using bootcamp on an Early 2011 Macbook pro. I've been using a bootable USB thumbdrive made with Unetbootin.
I edited info.plist to enable loading the win 8 ...
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Extend GPT System Partition
I have a Tablet notebook having C: drive (system drive) as GPT, while other drives are MBR (this information is shown in partition tool). I have been trying to extend system drive using windows Disk ...
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How to grow ESXI 6.0.0 VMFS 5.60 datastore beyond 2TB?
I hope that this is the right place to ask my question. I have an ESXI 6.0.0 host with a raid as datastore embracing 2.73TB. But I am only able to grow the datastore to 2TB. I already figured out, ...
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Ubuntu gone along with windows
I had earlier installed ubuntu 17.04 using wubi and later on uninstalled it, after restarting my laptop post uninstall the windows 10 is not booting and is stuck at spinning circles. Please help!
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Unable to install Ubuntu 16.04 on MBR drive in Legacy mode
A year ago i made the mistake of installing Windows in BIOS Mode which now has given me an MBR drive where i cannot create more than four primary partitions.
I'm trying to dual boot with Windows 10 ...
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Adding GPT HDD to MBR installed Server
My Server is set with 500GB HDD (MBR Formatted), Now I brought 1TB WD HDD to expand the storage. I have initialized new HDD with GPT partition. MY server is running Windows 2008 R2. Is it possible to ...
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Windows can't see partitions made by Linux
I have recently installed Linux on a late-2011 HP Pavilion desktop. It also has Windows on it. I have made changes to the partition table (MBR) in Linux, more specifically I took 256GB from my 1TB ...
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Windows 10 BSOD after msconfig changes
As a disclaimer I have read other posts and problems of windows 7, 8.1, and 10. None of them work... So, I have 16 gb of ddr3 ram in my motherboard. Windows only saw 8gb. I figured that windows didn't ...
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Dual boot Arch Linux and Win 7 ultimate
I have the followin setup: I installed win7 ultimate in a dos disklabel (not gpt). On some free space left at the end of the disk, I installed Arch Linux. I have installed grub on Arch Linux with ...
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Installing Windows in GPT Partition Style
Recently, I received three laptops from my family members for installing Windows.
In one laptop, Windows 10 is installed with one volume i.e. C: and with data (like files, images, video, etc). And C: ...
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Blue screen crash causes my pc to slow down to death, not working anymore
Three days ago, I was using BlueStacks. At that time, my PC fan went loud and I could notice for few seconds high CPU usage. There was no other program running at that time. I suddenly ran into the ...
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How to move windows system partition
I'm running a Windows 2003 server on Linux/KVM (But should not matter where it runs actually). The HD image has just one partition starting with 63 sectors offset and all works fine.
Now I want to ...
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Would a repair of the 64-bit installation MBR using 32-bit LiveCD be compatible?
My aging computer runs an i5-760 on a P7P55D-E Pro.
The primary OS on this was Win 7 on a SATA drive.
A used HP 80GB IDE drive came my way upon which I've installed 64-bit Ubuntu with a GRUB loader.
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Master Boot Record Keeps Disappearing?
Background in case it provides clues to what's wrong: It all started when I tried to clone my son's main hard drive. I hot-plugged it into my computer along with a new drive and began the copy. At ...
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sfdisk command fails in liberte setup.sh
I used to run Liberte Linux off a USB, but I can't seem to make the USB bootable any more.
Create a MBR type partition table on /dev/sdc
Create a FAT32 partition /dev/sdc1
Unzip the /liberte ...
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How to copy the hard-disk (>1 partitions, bootloader, & MBR/GPT included) towards smaller hard-disk?
After a full Windows factory settings reset, I have a laptop with multiple partitions and a freshly installed Windows 8 on an 500GB hard-disk. I need to make a fully recoverable hard-disk image/copy/...
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Format disk as MBR on a notebook with BIOS,
I have an Asus X55A notebook that I'm replacing hdd with an ssd and clean installing Win 10.
I'm pretty sure the X55A uses the older legacy bios so I have to format the ssd as MBR correct? BIOS ...
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When booting into Win10 install media, c: changes to e:
i've been having some Win10 issues lately. Some windows updates were installed, and when the PC started back up it gave me the Unexepected I/O error. Hit enter to try again gave me NTOSKRNL.EXE was ...
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Hard drive bad - Failed clone
I have a harddisk that was failing. I wanted to clone the disk to an other hard disk, but the program needed the disk to be a mbr disk instead of a gpt disk. So I transformed it to a mbr disk, but now ...
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WinXP asks for registration after fixing MBR
I have a WinXP development disk which was originally installed via MSDN CDs and DDK, and recently tried booting it after several years of non-use.
When I encountered a GRUB error for non-existant ...
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Unable to boot Windows after installing OpenSUSE
At my side I having issue that I never faced before, I am unable to boot Windows at my laptop. Simply, whenever I re-install Windows from USB after selecting hard-drive as booting device it says '...
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How to backup the partition table of a mmcblk disk
I've been using parted-magic to backup my computers' system disks for a while.
So far I've been using either sfdisk or sgdisk for saving the partition table; most of the time, if sfdisk fail I'm using ...
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Found a way to convert drive from GPT to MBR and vice versa without data loss but,
I also have found a way to convert drive from GPT to MBR and vice versa without data loss using the AOMEI Partition Assistant Pro Edition 6.0 but, I fear because actually, I have Windows 10 already ...
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Can I restore a Win10 bootloader with a Win7 DVD?
My friend's struggling with a Windows 10 installation he cloned from a HDD to a SSD. He tried to create a Win10 stick but it failed. So I would like to know if it's possible to restore the MBR/...
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Multiple operating systems on the same PC and Large Drives
I've always had multiple OS on my Computer.
Using MBR and Boot managers i was able to do this until now.
But today i've replaced my Pc with a new one that have a large HDD , 5TB.
Reading on internet i'...
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BIOS with 'no issue UEFICompliant' support for GPT partition tables
I would like to change my hard drive partition table from MBR to GPT,
(since MBR supports 4 primary partitions).
After some searching, I discovered C:\Windows\Panther\setupacl.log, and found a few ...
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Way to get back formatted Windows MBR partition in dual boot system
I have a Dual boot system and accidentally formatted Windows MBR partition while trying to format a USB (via disks utility). Now I am not able to boot into Windows.
My grub doesn't show Windows ...
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How to fix mbr if I can't get to the cmd or terminal, and I deleted grub?
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I removed the GRUB, BUT in Windows disk management, I started to delete the first (of four) Linux partitions and after I got tired of waiting, I restarted the PC during the deletion process.
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Install Windows 10 on an EFI / hybrid MBR Macbook?
I have an 2011 macbook which has been updated to EFI 1.7.
Bootcamp sets up a hybrid MBR to support Windows 7.
I need to install Windows 10 on this hybrid MBR setup instead of an EFI/GPT setup ...
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Getting error: Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style
I am trying to reinstall Windows 10 on my friends machine from bootable USB. Following is what I have done till now:
I created bootable USB using Windows 10 ISO and Rufus with GPT Partition scheme ...
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Windows 8 install on MBR
I have a Notebook that dual-boots Arch Linux and Windows 8 via GRUB. After swapping hard drives, Windows couldn't boot anymore, and I've spent hours on fixing this to no avail. (I've cloned everything ...
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