Questions tagged [bootsector]
The bootsector is located on bootable disks such as hard drives, CDs and floppy disks. It is loaded by the BIOS and in turn loads the operating system. It is frequently a target for viruses.
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Cannot access disk, partition table broken
I was so dumb, to turn of the power on my Readynas Ultra 4 when it was installing the disk (3TB WD Green), I had no time to wait for it as I was going to return it (It was to damn noisy) The disk ...
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Is it safe to overwrite LBA 2-2047
So back when I used WUBI before settling on using a VM, GRUB was installed (but I messed it up and had to reinstall everything (luckily I backed up)). That was back when I used Vista which starts at ...
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Recover Lost NTFS Partition With Corrupted Boot Sector
Is there a way to recover a lost NTFS partition with a corrupted boot sector ?
The backup boot sector is also corrupted. I know that the NTFS partition used to start in sector 551585791.
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Linux pass execution directly to Grub on reboot
Is it possible to have Linux, upon reboot, pass execution to Grub without actually rebooting and invoking the BIOS? I have a GPT hard disk that I nee dplugged it at startup but the BIOS refuses to ...
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Restoring MBR, partition table, and boot sector of memory card without data loss ("USBC")
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I have a FAT32 memory card that when inserted into a computer causes Windows to prompt to format it. The card is definitely not supposed to be blank and has a bunch of files on it.
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How can I recover a lost MBR/boot sector?
I had a VDI (VirtualBox Virtual Disk Image) with Ubuntu 11.10 (64bit, I think) installed on it. Earlier, while running a GParted live CD on my Virtual Machine to erase the partition table of another ...
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Why is it even possible to overwrite the boot sector
Why is it possible to overwrite the boot sector so trivially in Windows? I just had a little coding accident involving writing to a raw physical disk, and I messed up the arithmetic and ended up ...
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Changing which drive the boot sector is on
I ordered a pre-built computer from a custom computer manufacturer, but asked them to install an SSD and make it the primary drive (C:), with the hard drive that was formerly the primary drive to be ...
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Reinstalled Windows 7 on new HDD, installed Linux over previous Windows 7 on old HDD, how to dual boot?
I reinstalled Windows 7 on my new HDD, installed Linux over the previous Windows 7 on the old HDD. How do I dual boot?
It seems that I overrided the Windows bootsector in the original HDD that was ...
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How to restore bootloader or bootsector for Windows Vista?
I've restored NTFS containing Windows Vista. But the bootloader or bootsector got corrupted.
How can i detect what of them got corrupted?
How can i restore bootloader if it's corrupted?
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How to write a localized NTFS boot sector?
Little unknown fact: NTFS boot sectors come in different languages. They can say "BOOTMGR is missing" and "Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart", but they can also say the same thing in other languages. This ...
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How do I copy the boot sector from one computer to another?
I have a pair of identical computers. One of them stopped booting the other day (it gets past the BIOS screen then goes black). Booting from a USB recovery stick I've verified that the partition is ...
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