[ltp] how to restore original MBR and partition table

[Michael Gaber]

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what's the problem with grub giving you the selection to boot either 
windows or linux?

Jeffrey Taylor schrieb:
> Quoting Joe Zien <jozien@comcast.net>:
> [snip]
>> I did not get a cd-rom for the Thinkpad with XP, there is a rescue and 
>> restore partition
>> on the hard drive that allows you to restore XP to factory condition
>> but that wipes out your whole hard drive including all my linux partitions.
>> I just want to restore the XP partition table and MBR.
>> Is that possible without wiping out the whole drive?
>>
>> Using an XP cd-rom that I got for my tower, I tried to use the restore
>> function "fixboot" and "fixmbr" but I got error that it couldn't find the
>> c:\ drive.
>>
> [snip]
>> The main question is can you restore the original partition table
>> and MBR without re-installing XP from the rescue and restore
>> function on the Thinkpad?
>>
> 
> It is my experience that the rescue and restore partition (on my T41) will
> respect the partitioning and restore only the first partition.  I have done
> this several times successfully.  It has been reported several times on this
> list that the rescue CDs repartition the whole disk wiping out any other OS
> like Linux.
> 
> Jeffrey

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