Hi All,

Is there a live CD which allows me to save my current MBR
to an USB stick and put it back to Harddrive again and which
commands do I need for that?

I have winXP ( need it for my Garmin GPS ) installed and like
to have a linux for my daily use beside it.


Thanks for any help

In article <b47d7$4591b9af$5429cd05$17226@news.speedlinq.nl >,
Edmund <nomail@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Is there a live CD which allows me to save my current MBR
> to an USB stick and put it back to Harddrive again and which
> commands do I need for that?

LiveCD, bah. "dd if=/dev/hda of=/mnt/usbstick/mbr_file bs=512 count=1",
assuming /dev/hda is your hard drive, and 512 bytes covers the MBR but
not the partition table (anyone?).

> I have winXP ( need it for my Garmin GPS ) installed and like
> to have a linux for my daily use beside it.

Easier: to install Windows' MBR (boot ONLY into Windows), from Windows
run "fdisk /mbr".

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Hactar wrote:
> In article <b47d7$4591b9af$5429cd05$17226@news.speedlinq.nl >,
> Edmund <nomail@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Is there a live CD which allows me to save my current MBR
>>to an USB stick and put it back to Harddrive again and which
>>commands do I need for that?
>
>
> LiveCD, bah. "dd if=/dev/hda of=/mnt/usbstick/mbr_file bs=512 count=1",
> assuming /dev/hda is your hard drive, and 512 bytes covers the MBR but
> not the partition table (anyone?).

It *does* cover the main partition table (4 primary partitions)
which is near the end of the MBR.

For a toolkit CD, I would recommend the System Rescue CD
<http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page>.

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"Tauno Voipio" <tauno.voipio@INVALIDiki.fi> wrote in message
news:QIwkh.154$lC.85@read3.inet.fi...
> Hactar wrote:
>> In article <b47d7$4591b9af$5429cd05$17226@news.speedlinq.nl >,
>> Edmund <nomail@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Is there a live CD which allows me to save my current MBR
>>>to an USB stick and put it back to Harddrive again and which
>>>commands do I need for that?
>>
>>
>> LiveCD, bah. "dd if=/dev/hda of=/mnt/usbstick/mbr_file bs=512 count=1",
>> assuming /dev/hda is your hard drive, and 512 bytes covers the MBR but
>> not the partition table (anyone?).
>
> It *does* cover the main partition table (4 primary partitions)
> which is near the end of the MBR.
>
> For a toolkit CD, I would recommend the System Rescue CD
> <http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page>.

Thank you, I will look at both options.