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Repairing Master Boot Records

Hey guys trying to fix a friends computer and he got a virus that messed up his MBR. I was trying to boot the windows XP disk into recovery however it throws errors before I could reach the prompt to hit R to repair the system. I was going to try to boot a startup disk however he doesn't have a floppy drive and I was trying to figure out how to boot from a flash drive but that was hard to follow.. any advice or tips how to fix/clean his MBR? Thanks!

Hirens
Search the torrents for a Hirens boot CD
Now about version 9.6
Burn and boot on the system with the bad MBR.
Lots of tools to fix this......... and that ............... and the other.
Keep the CD its a valuable tool
Good Luck
Pegleg

pegleg007 said:
Search the torrents for a Hirens boot CD
Now about version 9.6
Burn and boot on the system with the bad MBR.
Lots of tools to fix this......... and that ............... and the other.
Keep the CD its a valuable tool
Good Luck
Pegleg
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I'm not to familiar with searching torrents.. but ill try later when I get home from work.. is there free program that will help repair the MBR that I can download online?

You need some boot device
Can you boot to DOS on your friend PC
if so
Run
FDISK /MBR
This write a new boot rec

or you boot from vista or xp installation cd and runnign the system repair console and use there the fix mbr command

pegleg007 said:
Can you boot to DOS on your friend PC
if so
Run
FDISK /MBR
This write a new boot rec
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Anyone know how to make a dos startup disk not on a floppy but on a CD... cause he doesn't have a floppy drive.. and the XP disk doesn't allow to get to the Repair option or allows me to format.. I've been searching online about images but doesn't seem to work..

sguerra923 said:
Anyone know how to make a dos startup disk not on a floppy but on a CD... cause he doesn't have a floppy drive.. and the XP disk doesn't allow to get to the Repair option or allows me to format.. I've been searching online about images but doesn't seem to work..
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Hi,
You could try to find an image of a bootdisk and put it on a USB-pendrive. In your BIOS set the bootdevice to USB, and check wether the USB settings allow to emulate a floppy.
Dirk

Here you go:
Code:
http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/
You'll find all the information you need to do the bootable cd by yourself right there.
Go grab an old copy of DOS (might be Win95, Win98 or WinME, all of them include a full copy of DOS, fdisk included) and repair your MBR just as pegleg007 says.
Be careful, this method applies to FAT partitions, if yours is NTFS, you might need newer tools to repair your MBR.

Thanks guys problem fixed..

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I have a couple day try figure out how to install debian in the blackstone, but
no good results.I know there is a wiki how to android and linux to blackstone but it was too hard understund so if you can easily expalin how to do it...please it is welcome.I already have debian armel image.
Thanks!

Anyone please?

Have you tried to andriod thread?

Root/Recovery/Flasing From Linux?

Hey all, i don't use windows, only have a virtual machine (which doesn't seem to work well with adb).
Does no-one use linux to flash here? I'm looking for a linux only tutorial?
Cheers,
D

I've got root trough VM with one-click method. I was using VMWare Player in Ubuntu 9.10.

adb is working fine on my gentoo machine, it is even better than on the offtopic I got root and everything using linux. And you don't need different tutorials - everything is almost the same.

here ya go! hehe i hope this will help u! if u need any help just pm me, i use ubuntu everyday and for everything!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=537508

Windows XP Mode

Does anyone here know if it's possilbe to do a full clean install of the free Windows XP Mode that you can get with the Windows 7 Virtual machine?
I do know it's possilbe to convert a .vhd into a .iso file which can be burned to disk but i can't find anything on google that would help me with this.
Any help would be appreciated.

If I understand correctly you want to V2P (virtual 2 physical).
I wonder if since Windows 7 bootloader allows you to boot vhd file's if you can boot the Windows xp mode vhd.
Also I think clonezilla will allow you to dd the vhd to a physical disk.
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converting a vhd to ISO? that's uh not going to work buddy.
i have no idea hwat you're trying to do, but based on experiance drop xp mode, use vpc2007, virtualbox or vmware. vmware can physically access drives, which is..extremely handy.

Yup, that's exactly what i want to do, is to make the .vhd to physical so i can full install it at boot then dual boot windows 7 and windows XP without the need of useing Virtual PC all the time when i want to use XP.
It should be possible in everyway and i also have a genuine key for Windows XP Mode that come with the download from microsoft.

it isnt going to work. repartition your drive and use a real xp.
xp doesnt like being swapped between hardware configs. specially with whatever insane method win7 uses to boot to vhd files.

so i no its naughty but if you have a legit key then just download xp, with a built in key, then use jellybean to activate your legit key, prob get flamed for that info but fine if u are telling the truth

Root access in Mac

Guys
I want to root my phone and install a custom Rom, but I only have a mac, and do not have any Windows simulation program either. Is there a guide I can use that walks me through the process with a mac?
Thanks a bunch !
DZ
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Y cant u check in frnd of u, who has windows os! Because root through, mac os is quite complicated!

the only difference is the alpharev process

Try to download virtual machine . Like VMWare. Then download a Linux system. Fedora is recommend(smaller to download. Ubuntu is too big.)