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Fixing Boot Record
Name: doomhammerr Date: February 10, 2009 at 12:03:29 Pacific OS: Windows XP CPU/Ram: 2 Product: Cyberpowerpc / CUSTOM Subcategory: General
Comment:
Here's the dilemma. I have a Windows XP machine. I took an internal hard drive, made it external with a switch, and installed all of ubunto 7.10 (or so I thought) onto that hard drive. I figured, stupidly, that I could just boot right into linux when i had it turned on, and xp if I didn't. So now everytime I want to boot I have the task of turning on the internal hard drive and plugging it in at the right time and so it can find the boot loader. If I don't then I get a Grub boot loader error. Well It's been like this for about a year. I'm SICK of it! Can I do a simple repair mbdsk with the recovery cd or is there an easier way, and will that be ok if I still want to keep everything I have on my pc.
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