[Noisebridge-discuss] Can Someone Help Me with My MBR?

[Matt Thrailkill]

Can't you boot off the 7 cd to do this?  Back in the day there was
some kind of mbr repair.  I think "fdisk /mbr" would also restore a
basic Windows MBR, if you could get up into Windows.

I would not be surprised if you could get away using a tool like
parted to just write out an mbr with one huge partition that starts
1MiB into the disk (sector 2048) and get away with that -- although
you may still be missing a bootloader.

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Chrysanthemum Hyphus <c at hyph.us> wrote:
> Hello Noisebridge,
>
> I corrupted my master boot record on my Windows 7 laptop while trying to
> uninstall Wubi before doing a proper install of Linux, so it will not boot
> at all. I would like to non-destructively repartition my hard drive to
> create a new partition for Linux, which has not been done yet. I have all of
> my data on a separate partition from Windows, but I'm hoping to keep the
> programs and any configuration data on the Windows OS partition intact.
>
> Does anyone have a bootable flash drive or bootable DVD with a utility to at
> least fix the MBR without disturbing any of the data that currently exists
> on it? A program that will do a nondestructive partition would be awesome.
> If so, let me know when I could meet you at Noisebridge, perhaps this
> Thursday afternoon if not sooner.
>
> Thanks,
> --Chrysanthemum
>
> Nations are never conscious of all the riches they possess in the matter of
> knaves.
> --Victor Hugo, Napoleon the Little
>
>
>
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