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

[Jon Skulski]

Yeah I don't know how the MBR would change something like that.
But if I remember from my windows days you could do something like

'fdisk /mbr' from the cmd prompt to restore the windows MBR.

and to get back into linux you boot from a CD and grub --install (hdX, Y)

you'll have to figure the parameters and syntax (and also make sure your
config file (menu.lst to get grub to boot into windows too)

-jsk




On Feb 12, 2008 11:31 AM, Joe <josephj at main.nc.us> wrote:

> It was a long  shot.  I just couldn't think of any other reason for it
> being broken.  Windows was factory installed and pre-updated at the
> store before I installed Linux.  Then, obviously, I had to modify the
> partitions to make room for Linux, but I didn't change their order, etc.
> as far as I remember.
>
> Any ideas as to what might have broken this?
>
> Joe
>
> Cyber Source wrote:
> > 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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