Questions tagged [mbr]
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Install Windows 7 without modifyting the MBR
Is there a way to install Windows 7 on a second HDD (SATA for that matter) and have it not modify the MBR?
The disk can be later placed in a similar H/W configuration or booted using the BIOS boot menu.
Also, is there a way to install Windows on a…
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Windows 2008R2 x64 large partition size not usable
I have installed a win2k8r2 system on a large (4Tb) drive. During the setup I made my C: drive 300Gb, wanting to use the rest as a large data partition (was hoping GPT can be used), but after the installation, I found that my drive is divided into 3…
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Reinstalling GRUB on RAID array
I have a computer running Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop x64. I just bought another tb drive and wanted to combine my two drives using RAID 0. I have a MSI 890GXM-G65 motherboard and decided to use their built in RAID support. The last step of setting up RAID…
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Ubuntu - copy MBR from flash to CD
I've MBR on a flash drive, how can I copy it to CD?
Thanks in advance
peter
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Root disk mbr and non-root gpt
I have an ec2 instance on aws running linux, with a root volume and another volume for data.
Both are ext4.
I need to increase the data volume size to more than 2 TB.
However currently the partitioning scheme is mbr, so I'm unable to create such…
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Resize an OS disk that has a MBR partition - azure linux vm
We have a managed OS disk attached to a Linux VM (Ubuntu) that have 64 GB in size, and it's using MBR partition table with azure vm generation 1, now we want to expand the disk space to 128 GB !
From the azure doc I found this article…
Hamza AZIZ
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Increased AWS EBS to more than 2TB and found out MBR is limited to 2TB
we just ran almost out of space on our main EC2 instance. I wanted to increase the EBS volume size to 2.5TB from 2TB.
However, I noticed that I could not increase the partition anymore due to the MBR limit of 2TB.
I should've known that before...Is…
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How to clone PMBR disk with bad sectors?
I'm trying to clone 1TB disk with PMBR partition and bad sectors. Which has working Windows partitions on it, and is bootable via MBR.
blkid doesn't recognize partitions
/dev/sdc: PTTYPE="PMBR"
gdisk /dev/sdc
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version…
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Why is the BOOTMGR inside of the MBR?
According to the MBR strcuture definitions I have found, the partition table data should be within the bytes ranging from 446 to 510 of the first block of the disk. However, when I run:
sudo xxd -g 1 -u -l 512 /dev/sda1
I see that there is some…
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Why do Cloud providers use MBR and BIOS?
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Full/Installation#Master_boot_record_.28MBR.29_or_DOS_boot_sector While installing Gentoo, I came across a segment talking about GPT and UEFI being the more modern option, while MBR and BIOS are legacy…
