[CentOS] Now you did it Olly
Ned Slider
ned at unixmail.co.uk
Sun Jul 27 15:44:57 UTC 2008
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
>> On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 10:36 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>
>>> Oh, Boy. I am in trouble now....
>>>
>>> I just installed Centos on a USB drive on my corp notebook. To not
>>> TOUCH my corp drive.
>>>
>>> I spent time with the drive partitioner to make sure that nothing was
>>> done to the internal hard drive...
>>>
>>> Well I missed something and I overwrote the encrypted bootloader on
>>> the hard drive.
>>>
>>> Now what? Can I rescue things?
>>>
>>> I am leaving for my flight in a couple hours to Dublin for IETF
>>> meeting. I have to get this working on my own.
>>>
>>> I hope there is another copy of the old boot loader somewhere on that
>>> system and some way to copy it?????
>>>
>> ----
>> Nope
>>
>> whose bootloader was it?
>> Microsoft? You can re-install by booting installation CD and going to
>> recovery console and running 'fixmbr'
>>
> Yes. XP. But with the corp encrypted bootloader....
>
> No install CD. Well I do have an XP install CD here. Also Ghost 9.0
> that has some sort of bootloader fixer?
>
> I seem to recall that there are two copies of either the bootloader or
> partition table, one as a backup? But which is it?
>
Nope, I don't believe there is a backup of the mbr anywhere - that it
the partition table that has two copies.
Interestingly, the recent mbr boot sector virus doing the rounds last
year made a backup copy of the mbr at sector 62, so if you'd happened to
have been infected then you could have recovered your original mbr from
that, but I guess you're out of luck.
You haven't lost any data thought, just your ability to boot. A trip to
corporate IT may be in order.
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