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    Can't reinstall my bootloader/MBR - no filesystem found?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Hungry Man, Sep 4, 2011.

  1. Hungry Man

    Hungry Man Notebook Virtuoso

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    I installed FREEBSD but after some driver issues I went ahead and tried to get back to Windows but there was an MBR issue so I put in my recovery DVD.

    My recovery DVD can't find any Windows installations and so it says I should "Load Drivers" but I have no clue what that means.

    Advice? I'm thinking of just installing Grub.
     
    Hungry Man, Sep 4, 2011
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    ExMM, Sep 5, 2011
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    Yes. The entire repair DVD was useless.

    I installed Ubuntu and formatted over the FreeBSD partition and then used the DVD after that to fix Windows.
     
    Hungry Man, Sep 5, 2011
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    I see, glad anyway that you have found a solution.
     
    ExMM, Sep 6, 2011
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