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    Dell laptop Vista MBR

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by andrewwan1980, Jul 9, 2008.

  1. andrewwan1980

    andrewwan1980 Notebook Enthusiast

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    andrewwan1980, Jul 9, 2008
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    Can't you restore a corrupted mbr with your vista install disk?
     
    deathstick, Jul 10, 2008
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    The thing is, the MBR was never corrupted in the first place. (it's corrupted from Vista's point of view). But this MBR is Dell's special MBR and does some checking on the partition table. Since I modified the partition tables (resized, etc), then Dell's MBR refused to operate... and Vista automatically replaced the MBR with generic Vista MBR... thus losing Dell's MBR.
     
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    deathstick, you are right. I can use vista to restore my mbr and use waik setautofailsafe to set what dell set to gain access to factory restore image.
     
    andrewwan1980, Jul 11, 2008
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