[nflug] Getting my old Windows MBR back on my dual boot notebook

[Cyber Source]

I really really really doubt restoring the mbr will do anything to fix 
your hotkeys.

Joe wrote:
> I just read an article about installing Linux and grub without 
> trashing the windows mbr (as I did when I installed over a year ago).
>
> http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/05/08/dual-boot-laptop.html?page=3 
>
>
> When I did the install, something (I'm guessing it was in the MBR) 
> killed my two fancy buttons for quick launch of DVD and Quicktime 
> players.  These buttons no longer work even under XP (dual boot) and 
> don't even show up as key presses under Linux (with xev).
>
> My computer comes with a restore partition, etc. and no software CD's 
> (although I have some backup CD's I made somewhere).
>
> Is there any way to get the MBR and whatever else was destroyed back 
> without doing a windows restore which will almost certainly wipe out 
> all of Linux and all of my windows customizations and additional 
> applications installs while putting back all sorts of junk I had to 
> manually delete?
>
> TIA
>
> Joe
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