Re: Lost MBR after windows installed

Bernd Mayer wrote:

Floyd L. Davidson wrote:
That's relatively easy to fix with a "rescue disk".

Obtain virtually any of the "live CD" distributions of
Linux, and boot Linux from the CD. Get a shell command
line (exactly how depends on which distribution) running
as root. Then do approximately this:

> disk -l # just for fun, look at all of your disk partitions
> mkdir /u


Hello,

here i have no disk command. Maybe you mean fdisk -l to list the
partitions?

As live-CD i like to use RIP (Recovery Is Possible)
http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/
because there is detailed help included for such cases.


Bernd Mayer
Personnaly i prefer parted, much more versatile.
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