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Live USB: Why Windows OS requires an MBR to be installed?
I have always managed to create bootable linux usb devices using only dd. But when it comes to Windows, the computer fails to boot from USB .. - I don't know why it doesn't work that way, but the most ...
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Can I chainload MBR from Grub on secondary GPT drive? And can I nuke MSR on secondary drive?
So I have a UEFI capable motherboard and three hard drives:
/dev/sda - 256G SSD (MBR)
/dev/sdb - 230G HDD (MBR)
/dev/sdc - 512G SSD (GPT)
For historical reasons sda and sdb have MBR partition tables ...
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How to fix mbr if I can't get to the cmd or terminal, and I deleted grub?
Problem
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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Dual boot Linux with Windows 7
I am trying to recover an installation of Linux on my machine, preferably without having to reinstall Linux (and possibly Windows) altogether.
I have installed Pear OS first, and then installed ...
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Fix MBR and partition table of windows 7 hdd/installation
Apparently the partition table still seems to be somewhere in tact, as well as all the files. Debian is able to mount the ntfs partitions, I can read/write and I am using dd to image the data onto an ...
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Linux AutoNeoGrub0.mbr is corrupt of missing? [duplicate]
I've been trying to get my windows boot manager working so I can boot both Windows 7 and Linux. Currently, I can boot both, but only run when I click on "Windows 7" in the boot manager (Linux will run ...
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How to remove linux mint? [duplicate]
I've windows 8 and Linux mint both installed on my system , Now I want to remove both Linux mint and windows 8 and install windows 7 from a USB flash drive .
I don't know where the Linux mint files ...
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Make GRUB2 work installing Linux over OEM Win7
I bought an Acer laptop with Win7, and installed Linux Xubuntu as second OS. It says the GRUB was installed as well, but at the boot it keeps loading only windows. No grub screen at all.
What to do?
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Migrating Windows 7 to new hard drive/partition
So, I'be managed to migrate my Windows 7 data over from /dev/sdb3 to a new partition on /dev/sdc1 using ntfsclone. I managed to resize the volume size to match the new partition size. I also used ms-...
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Need to fix Windows MBR without using a CD
I have a laptop which was Linux/Windows 7 dual-boot. I need to get rid of the Linux partition so that it only boots into windows.
I know how to do this if I have the Windows 7 CD(which I do). But ...
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How to uninstall GRUB and get windows 7 bootloader back?
I have windows 7 home premium currently installed and I have just recently installed Linux Mint and it has replaced my MBR with GRUB.
Is there any way I can restore the normal Windows 7 Boot Loader ...
Matt
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Windows XP Cant install STOP error 0x0000007B
When i insert my XP cd before i could get to the install or repair screen i get this error
I found this and i am unsure what the problem is. Does it not like my HD? XP installed on my laptop in the ...
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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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How do I make a boot loader load the existing boot loader from the first partition
I installed ubuntu using wubi and then I tried installing grub 2 but it failed. I need a way to reinstall the mbr sp it will load the windows 7 loader from the first partition.
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Triple-Boot + 4 partition Limit
I just bought a new hard drive so that I could convert my XP-only machine into an XP-Ubuntu-Windows 7 triple boot machine. Since the drive is absurdly huge (1 TB) I wouldn't mind throwing ReactOS ...
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