[ltp] From Jiang: recoverying partition

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If you have a Windows install CD handy, you can try starting up from it, going
into the Recovery Console, and running the "FIXMBR" and "FIXBOOT" commands.

Good luck.
Joe

Quoting Jiang Qian <qian2@fas.harvard.edu>:

> Hi All:
> I see an discussion about recovery partition. My question is this: as I
> understand I have to use NTLDR as bootloader in order to boot to
> recovery partition at all. Not knowing this I already installed grub on
> MBR and can now only boot to BSOD when trying to boot to recovery
> partition. Is there any way to non-destructively fix this, i.e. to put
> NTLDR back to MBR to dual boot system? I have already had the recovery
> cd. Is there a way to use recovery cd to restore NTLDR into MBR? Or any
> other ways of getting back the option of recovering from hidden partion?
>
> My rationale of restoring recovery partition even when I have CDs is
> the following: as pointed out restoring from recovery CDs one only have
> the option of wiping out the whole disk yet restoring from recovery
> partition one have the capability to restoring to first partition on
> disk, which I kept windows.
>
> My rationale of having the option of no-destructively restoring windows
> is windows is a good thing around for testing, knowing some problems
> are hardware instead of software. Another significant reason is that my
> wife use windows. If she mess up the windows part I want to be sure to
> be able to fix the windows part without wiping out my linux
> environment.
>
> Thanks a lot!
> Jiang
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