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How do I keep a drive from booting accidently that used to be a bootable drive?
I used to have a RAID 0 setup but I ditched it and restarted from scratch with a plain non raid single disk system. The second disk is just used for general storage. Well today, I boot the machine and...
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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...
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Installing GRUB on a VirtualBox guest – does it affect the host MBR?
I am in the process of installing the latest debian stable on VirtualBox (3.1.4), and got to an installation step asking to installing GRUB to the MBR of the disk. I assume that since this is a...
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Windows Server 2008 – Will not boot normally, only boots into Safe Mode
I have a less than one month old server on which Windows Server 2008 R2 is installed. I have a 2 mirrored disk drives in there. I attempted a RAM upgrade, which did not go well possibly due to memory...
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How to edit Master Boot Record from Windows XP recovery console
How to alter Master Boot Record from Windows XP Recovery Console so that it points at an extended Linux partition instead of a NTFS one it is pointing at now? My MBR used to point at extended...
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What is the difference between a DOS and Solaris MBR?
I have been playing around with a VM trying to install Gentoo, and it seems there are two options for my Master Boot Record : DOS and Solaris. What is the difference? Which should I choose, or are...
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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...
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How to calculate the starting address of a partition from MBR
Given a MBR and the structure of MBR/partition table, how can you calculate the size and starting address of each partition? For clarification let’s say I was given this- Answer: There are three...
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how to get a linux image and restore it on another computer
I am trying to use dd command to accomplish complete restore of a linux image on a new computer. I have two partitions sda1(main) and sda2(extended), I took a backup of mbr image using: dd if=/dev/sda...
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EFI vs MBR – Installing Windows Server 2008 R2 or 2012 on 8TB
I’m having some difficulty installing Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012 on an Intel Server platform. The server specs is as follows: Intel Grizzly Pass Server System – R2308GZ4GC 2x Intel...
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