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I had only one OS on my PC, the windowsXP. Now I tried to install fedora linux and due to some problems in between the installation could not be completed. But till that time the MBR was already been modified. So as the installation stopped in between I restarted the PC. But what I will say there is no operating systems found on local drive.

Is it possible to recover the windows MBR using fedora live-usb?

I had some important data in my PC. Please can anyone show me a way to recover the windowsXP mbr?

Surjya Narayana Padhi
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The easiest method is to pop an XP CD in your drive and boot from it. Enter the recovery console and run these commands (press Enter after each one):

fixboot
fixmbr
exit

If all went well you'll reboot into Windows. Don't forget to remove the CD!

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If John T's suggestion doesn't work out, you might give a try to this free product that specializes in boot problems:

Paragon's Rescue Kit 9.0 Express.

This boot CD fixes boot problems, rescues your data to another local drive / partition / CD/DVD, and more.

harrymc
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