Re: Can I restore my MBR?
Barry Keegan <[email protected]>
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Another method <http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-copy-mbr/> On Saturday, 24 October 2015 22:19:56 UTC+1, Brendan Halpin wrote: > > I think I have blown away my MBR, and I wonder can I restore it. > > I thought I had disk problems, so booted from a rescue CD (actually USB) > to see if I could run fsck. I didn't run fsck, but did mount the various > partitions for a look, and run fdisk -l, etc. When I rebooted, the > comptuer tells me it can't find it's hard drive. I assume something I > did destroyed the MBR. Maybe I'm wrong. I was pretty sure I did nothing > which should write to the disk, but I'm assuming on the evidence that > I'm wrong. > > The system uses LVM, with some partitions encrypted. I've figured out > how to mount and decrypt them, and am currently backing up to an > external drive. That means I can if necessary simply re-install. > > My question is whether there is a way of restoring the MBR from a copy > stored elsewhere? A meta-question is whether I'm mis-diagnosing the > problem. > > Regards, > > Brendan > -- > -- Irish Linux Users Group --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ILUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/a/linux.ie/group/ilug/. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/a/linux.ie/d/msgid/ilug/3f0f9d7c-005d-498b-8b6a-94b06f6bd923%40linux.ie.