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Offline satuser083

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Restoring Grub to the MBR
« on: March 14, 2010, 12:33:58 PM »
I made the mistake of installing PCLOS 2010 (including GRUB on the MBR and menu.lst on hda5) prior to Win-XP and, of course, the latter overwrote the MBR so that only XP is bootable. Is there any way  of restoring Grub to the MBR other than re-installing PCLOS? Have tried to achieve this via the live-CD, but it failed   :-\ . Thanks.
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Offline putz

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Re: Restoring Grub to the MBR
« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2010, 12:46:40 PM »
If you are in 2010 Beta 1, did you look at PC/More Applications/Configuration/ReDoMBR.
2009 has one too, but not sure where it is.

I can't say for sure it's what you need, but it's there.

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Re: Restoring Grub to the MBR
« Reply #2 on: March 14, 2010, 12:54:08 PM »
Yes it can be done from liveCD .........  either using the redoMbr utility or from the command line.
There are quite a number of threads & posts dealing with this on the forum   ;)
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Re: Restoring Grub to the MBR
« Reply #3 on: March 14, 2010, 01:25:14 PM »
Many thanks to you both. Yes, redoMbr was the answer, and soooooo easy. Luverly ::)
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