Questions tagged [fixmbr]
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Windows doesn't update after installing Linux as dual boot
I have a windows 10 I installed linux (ubuntu) and boots with grub, I believe the reason windows doesn't update is because it doesn't boot using windows bootloader so it reverts the attempted updates
I attempted to make windows the bootlaoder with…
YesItsMe
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Cannot access a disk containing data without reinitializing it
My ~1 year old 1TB My Passport is not recognized by Windows anymore; see the following screenshot.
Windows asks to “reinitialize” it before being able to use it, however, since the disk contains important data without any back ups, I do not want to…
Dr. Strangelove
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Fix MBR with another windows version disk
After trying to remove Zorin OS from a dual boot machine (Win10, Zorin), W10 cannot boot anymore and goes directly to a BIOS memory scan.
This machine has Windows 10 Pro, version installed this year with its updates. Can I fix MBR using a different…
Ger Cas
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Fix MBR for a 16-bit intel 80386sx cpu
i have an old classic computer running ms-dos 3.30 on computer architecture running a 16-bit cpu (80386sx, not to mistake with 80386DX which is 32-bit), i was playing around and messed up the MBR.
I can reinstall the applications so dont really care…
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How to remove bad sectors from SSD disk, format, create partitions and install win 10
Upgraded my disk to a new SSD but seem to have screwed it by not realising that my Dell desktop Vostro was only a MBR bios and I tried to create a GPT system partition. Now after many and varied attempts to fix running through the gamuts of…
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Windows 10 clean boot after wiping disk clean
I recently updated win 10 OS on my laptop which resulted in a crash. I tried several ways to solve it but in the end, i ended up wiping the entire disk clean. I used a live ubuntu cd to merge all partitions into one ntfs (left out the efi…
Dante
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Windows 10 cannot boot
After reboot, my win10 stopped working, and just saying
Mbr error, press any key to boot from floppy
Please note that system disk is gpt
Neither of advices found in web do not work
Bootrec /fixboot says access denied
Bootrec /rebuildbcd finds…
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Restore Windows 7 Bootloader
I have an older Fujitsu Workstation (~2015) with a SSD and a larger harddrive.
Originally it had Windows 7 installed on the SSD with the hdd as data drive.
A few month ago I created a second Partition on the harddrive and installed ubuntu and centOS…
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Recover exFat partition
I have been working on fixing my bootcamp partition, but in the process I make a big mistake. I ran 'bootrec /fixmbr' and bootrec /fixboot on the wrong disk. My data is now inaccessible, if not lost.
I have ran testdisk and it has found a partition,…
Yen
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