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fdisk /mbr?
Otherwise it is just "boot sector", not an MBR. Yup. For example, an MS-DOS formatted floppy disk does not have an MBR. A floppy formatted with an ext2 filesystem does have an MBR. Not mine. I've never seen an ext2 floppy with an MBR. Actually... I think it does have one! Just that it is Not mine.

Problem with MBR on second hard drive (aka. disappearing ...
I have tried in vain to reset the MBR using 'fdisk /mbr' from a Windows98 boot disk. Did the attempt at installing Linux in some way affect your master boot record? It looks to me like the install didn't get that far. In any case, if you can boot off the Windows boot floppy, go to C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND (assuming your

trouble building stand/mbr/mbr in current
Sobald Linux installiert wird, wird häufig LILO oder Grub in den MBR installiert. Mit "lilo -u" kann man den ursprünglichen mbr wieder herstellen. Grub kennt meines Wissens keinen Parameter den ursprünglichen mbr wieder herzustellen. Sollte man aus welchem Grund auch immer, den MBR vor der Linux-Installation wieder

Tipp: Multiboot, MBR
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Removing MBR infectors from DDO drives (PC)
It looks like a corrupted MBR but perhaps the harddisk (there's only one) is going bad, too. The disk is 40gb and has 3 primary partitions each with w2k and one extended partition (sandwiched between 2nd and 3rd primaries) with 2 volumes. BootMagic (on the 3rd primary partition at the end of the disk),

GRUB & MBR
This repair option does not touch the Master Boot Record. If MBR is faulty, this will not help. FDISK /MBR does not touch the boot sector. It rewrites the Master Boot Record. This sector is not located within any partition, and is thus accessible from a boot diskette undependent of what file system the partitions

Can't reboot after cleaning Junkie.MBR
L. Friedman bee...@earthling.net alt os linux caldera DaveH wrote: Well I've managed to corrupt either the MBR or the Boot Sector (or are they the same thing ??) on /dev/hda due to an unfortunate chain of events. boot sector = MBR I won't bore you with the details here, but suffice to say I can boot into linux ok

Mandrake 8 Without Clobbering MBR
Nick Holland n...@holland-consulting.net lucky openbsd misc Those following source-changes@ will have noticed that an updated master boot record (MBR) has gone into the i386 code. This is part of the set of changes that are required for a fully-LBA-enabled boot process. This is required for us to break the current

Stealthboot MBR problem...Help!!! (PC)
Well, you now have a LILO mbr at /dev/hda, so debian mbr is not there at all, if you want to put it back you can try to use install-mbr /dev/hda I'm almost positive that Debian's mbr will work as expected, not so sure about LILO if as you said there is an incompatibility issue, but installing Debian mbr may help

FDISK /MBR is this a 'Cure all' ??
shamkao sham...@terra.es es comp os linux instalacion "[Miren]" <boli_NOSPAM_@excite. com> wrote in news:2kggpnF20s0lU1@uni-berlin.de: Hola tengo un ordenador con linux, suse, y tengo que instalar, pro necesidades del guion, en otra particion windows 2000 bien, resulta que esta instalacion me machacara la MBR que

Copy your MBR to use as a boot floppy or backup
Don't confuse a "boot partition" with the MBR (Master Boot Record). The "MBR" is the code on the first hard drive which is located roughly at sector 0, and which is executed when a given machine is initially booted (assuming it doesn't boot from some other device beforehand). A hard drive has one Master Boot Record

Need clarification: what really is 'MBR' and what is 'BOOT ...
due2...@gate.net) wrote: [deleted] I've never had a problem with FDISK /MBR except when messing with a machine with a BIOS enabled VIRUS PROTECTION. Well, FDISK /MBR will happily blow away a near-perfect partition-table (PT). While theoritically you would not loose any data, in practice it means that you will loose

grub and MBR overwritten: please help
Joe Morris jcmor...@mwunix.mitre.org comp os ms-windows setup win95 Marcin Nowak <mnowak@remove_it.mail.cern.ch> writes: There are no tables, even non-essential ones, in MBR. Besides this little thing, the advice is certainly worth following. That's not correct. The MBR occupies the first sector of the hard disk,

MBR and/or Boot Sector on IDE Drive Corrupted - How to rebuild ...
Richard Ballard rball84...@aol.com alt certification mcse "Basil L. Copeland Jr." <bl...@sprynet.com> writes: I can think of at least two legitimate reasons to want to poke around in the mbr. One is just to know how it works. Nothing wrong with seeking knowledge for its own sake. The other would be to use the

MBR
JN> > JN> JN> If you wipe out all Linux partitions you might not even able to install NT at JN> all until you boot MS-DOS and 'fdisk /mbr' then the LILO prompt goes away. I JN> also had NT as FAT at /dev/hda and all Linux at /dev/hdb, /dev/hdc. I remove JN> the two drives but retained the NT drive I couldn't boot

MBR Problems
Perry dependall ===> sys/arch/i386/stand/mbr/mbr # create mbr/machine rm -f machine ln -s /usr/src/sys/arch/i386/stand/mbr/mbr/../../../../. mbr.S <built-in>:0: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault Please submit a full bug report, with preprocessed source if appropriate. See <URL:http://www.

Hosed my MBR?
Bjorn Landemoo bj...@landemoo.com microsoft public windowsnt misc Mike NT Repair does not have an option to rewrite the MBR. Yes, you can rewrite the Master Boot Record with DOS "fdisk /mbr". The file system on your partitions does not matter, since the MBR can be accessed from a DOS boot disk.

Dual Boot (MBR Concepts)
When i installed bootmagic it told me that there was not enough room to store all the information bootmagic was storing in the MBR. So it made room for it after the MBR. But the problem is that when I image the machine and attempt to put the image on another laptop(same model of laptop), the process fails at the

Tipp: Multiboot, MBR
not me no...@nohow.com alt comp virus source code If your MBR is compromized, Fdisk /MBR will not do anything to help. It will make things worse. If you are infected, Fdisk /MBR will screw you system up worse. Then some hybrids will make everything that is run unreadable. I have even seen MO do this;

Where does MBR program originate ?
Timothy Murphy t...@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie comp os linux setup * Tong * wrote: What is the right way (in Linux) to allow MBR to boot the active partition? I used to install Windoze (98) on my PC first, and let it creates the right MBR which can boot the active partition. My disk partition tools was pq magic.