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I just tried a reckless experiment.
There are some things you read and never forget. Undocumented features can fall under this heading.
fdisk /mbr
I've got Windows back up: I can boot from C:
Thank me for that!Drivelling in TPD is not a mental health issue. We're just community blogging, that's all.
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Originally posted by BrowneIssue View PostThe GRUB utility assumes the first physical device is to be the boot device, apparently.
It has trashed the MBR and possible affected the partition table.
So the backups I did won't help - I didn't back up the MBR.
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If you'd been running Linux you'd have been able to backup the MBR really easily with a bash script. You see how much Windows sucks?
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Originally posted by BrowneIssue View PostI just tried a reckless experiment.
There are some things you read and never forget. Undocumented features can fall under this heading.
fdisk /mbr
I've got Windows back up: I can boot from C:
Thank me for that!
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostOh dear
<geek type="FOSS_Zealot">
If you'd been running Linux you'd have been able to backup the MBR really easily with a bash script. You see how much Windows sucks?
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Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
FWIW you could boot off a Linux live CD or DVD - that's what I always do
I wanted a configurable Linux on which I could install stuff and get decent performance.Drivelling in TPD is not a mental health issue. We're just community blogging, that's all.
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