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Grub2 MBR vs. Windows MBR

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Mar 15, 20263546 views
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I have an HP system that came with Vista installed and also a hidden restore partition. I subsequently upgraded to Win7(32 bit) Ultimate, and from there to Win7 Pro. Now the hard drive is failing. I managed to use partimage to grab the recovery partition (without errors) before I put it on ice in p…

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Fix for: Grub2 MBR vs. Windows MBR

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On systems with such a recovery partition, usually the active partition is the recovery partition. The recovery partition displays the "Press F11" message, and if not pressed, forwards over to the main OS partition. The MBR is essentially dumb; all …

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