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Fixing your Windows MBR after fu**ing it up with ubuntu or grub
I know I sinned. But Bill Gates wrath was mercyless. I screwed up my MBR on my primary harddrive with an ubuntu install and nothing worked anymore. I couldn't boot either system up because my MBR got overwritten and then something horrible happened.
Well, to make a long story short - the only way I found to make that go away is using the brilliant MBR fix by KÃ¥re Smith which will make your pain (i.e. Grub) disappear in a heartbeat...you just need something to boot your system into DOS mode. Ah well...time to connect that damned old floppy disk drive again *sigh*
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November 26th, 2007 - 20:15
You don’t need any obscure fixes for that, it happpened to me quite often
Just pop in your installer cd, ask for manual repair with the recovery console; log in with Administrator and use the “fixmbr” command. Now you got rid off Lilo, Grub or whatever had been living in the heart of your hard disk.
December 2nd, 2007 - 16:23
Okay, that was new to me. I thought the repair console wasn’t good for anything except fucking your system up even more. Thanks for pointing this out.
January 10th, 2008 - 16:24
Normally you can even use grub to boot windows and use fixmbr from that, completely without a install cd.