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restore MBR without optical drive Haines Brown 03-04-2008
Posted by Pen on March 4, 2008, 5:32 pm
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Haines Brown wrote:
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>> Haines Brown wrote:
>
>>> So my problem is either to create some space at the
>>> beginning of the drive or somehow to boot a system without the benefit
>>> of an optical drive (which the X61s lacks).
>
>> Fdisk /mbr will restore the master boot record on the 1st hard disk.
>> For a fuller explanation see here.
>> http://www.computerhope.com/fdiskhlp.htm
>
> But how does one do fdisk if the install medium can't be booted? I
> presume I can't just copy fdisk onto the usb-stick and execute it ;-)
>
Use a USB floppy drive.

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