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I ran into an interesting snag the other day. I had a hard drive that was not showing up and therefore the system would not boot. I really found this odd, because it showed up to the bios, and all hardware tests said the drive was fine, so I thought I would try and run a FIXMBR on the drive to see if that was the problem. Now, here is where the snag comes up. Normally I would take my Windows installation disk, and once running I would use the ‘recovery console’ to run the command and be done with it. But the Windows disk would not start. It would hang on the ‘Inspecting your systems hardware configuration.’ So, I needed the Windows Recover Console, to run the command, but I couldn’t get the console . . . and the whole things crashes down.

I then found http://www.arsgeek.com/2008/01/15/how-to-fix-your-windows-mbr-with-an-ubuntu-livecd/ . I thought to myself, how perfect is that? I know that the ubuntu disk will run, and then I can perform the changes I need and away we go.

Some changes since the writing of my reference article. The ms-sys package is no longer in the repositories. If you go to their website you can download source and do a quick make, make-install.

After you have done that the rest is easy peazy. Once again, linux saves the day.