mbr

Hi, My Motherboard is Gigabyte Z170N-WIFI Rev 1.0. I want to add an M2 SSD to this build. Below M2 SSD is available at Rs. 4214. (It was around 7-8 K before) Is it better to get it and will it suit my board ? Thanks in advance.

I have an old laptop hard drive(320gb) with bad sectors.I thought of using it as an external HDD. So bought a SATA enclosure and tried connecting to my laptop.When it is connected I can hear the vibration sound from the hdd ,but the drive is not detected properly i think.When i go to disk...

Hi, I am having window xp proff sp2 in c and d partition. Due to some reason i want to re-install window xp prof sp2 in c drive again by formating c drive. Just want to know where is this MBR/ boot info residing. like if i run xp from d drive and format c drive usgin GUI, is it erase my...

Guys, I want to remove Ubuntu from my system, but, I lost my Windows 7 beta DVD, so I cannot restore the MBR. Are there any alternatives?

I had installed Sidux a few days back and I am enjoying it. My mom, dad and sis are pissed off as they don't understand how to use Sidux. So I installed windows. I forgot the steps to reinstall grub in MBR. I am stuck with Sidux Live CD for now. How do I install GRUB in MBR once again ? For...

Hi I have a dual booting system of Windows XP and Ubuntu Edgy. Now I want to install Vista as third operating system. I don't want to reinstall Ubuntu. How could I do that? I have a tool for MBR backup in pen drive namely "Image for DOS Backup and Restore" but even if I backup the MBR and...

1.) i often install different distro's (sometimes upgrade the same distro to latest release)so grub is also installed in MBR... will the MBR be damaged since grub is installed many no. of times ?? 2.) i already have few linux distro's installed booting with mandriva's grub... and now i'm...

Hello everyone, I want to install Ubuntu 7.04 FF on to my Hard Drive (Windows Dual boot). When I Dbl Click the install icon on the Ubuntu desktop, in the end it asks me where to install the boot loader. Now I don't know what is the name of the MBR or how is it known as in Linux. Please help.

I messed up with my mbr i suppose. initially i had 2 os both xp. then i had installed Mandrake few months ago after that. then i just removed mandrake by deleting tht partition(on which mandrake was installed) thru xp. but tht new boot menu still remained. today i had formated tht free space...

I'm reformatting my PC currently on WinXP and installing WinVista Ultimate and PCQlinux07, based on the Fedora Core. My PC is a amd athlon 64bit with 1 GB ram and two HDD's 80Gb and 120Gb(master) and two drives, one CDrw(master) and DVDr, with a broadband connection thru the lan on the mobo...

i wanted to use linux so i tried SUSE 10.2 installed it but after installation i get an error : Error loading operating system... i.e. i cannot boot into either windows XP or linux.... i think i changed the MBR..... do u know what can i do to get my windows start back..... i can boot into...

i wanted to use linux so i tried SUSE 10.2 installed it but after installation i get an error : Error loading operating system... i.e. i cannot boot into either windows XP or linux.... i think i changed the MBR..... do u know what can i do to get my windows start back..... i can boot into...

I have a dual boot , having vista and XP. Yesterday, due to power failure , xp got corrupted. I am looking for a way to reinstall xp, while saving vista. I think i need to take the backup of MBR, but i don't know much. Can anybody help ? So that i can reinstall xp and continue using...

I have a Western Digital Drive. It is not detected by the BIOS. When another HDD is connected, the Western Digital Drive is detected but the problem is that Windows XP Setup cannot access the Western Digital Drive. I tried using Seagate utility software but even that also is not able to access...

How t set a GRUB password, i have already instakked grub on my mbr.

i hav 98 on C: D: E: and XP on F: how do i delete XP without screwing up my MBR please help :arrow:

How to delete MBR ? in Win XP, 2000, GRUB-----(Any specific command)

Dear friends I have two separate Hard disk drives in my computer each of 5 GB Capacity. I have installed Windows 98 in the Primary (c:/Windows) Drive and have partitioned the D: drive (in 3 GB and 2 GB) while Installing SUSE 9.1 Personal edition from the windows interface and have installed...

I have just installed Red Hat Linux 9 . When I installed it I did not write the Boot loader to the MBR instead I selected the first sector on the partition. As the setup was coming to an end I was prompted to create a boot disk. Now, what is happeninig is that if the boot disk is not...

what makes a bootable disk different from a non bootable disk is it that the cd have some sort of an mbr which gets automatically read?