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the rabbit hole gets deeper if you ask this question
some user has 2 windows partitions installed and a linux
if he makes C:\format /MBR
wich windows will boot up next time he reboots ?
the rabbit hole gets deeper if you ask this question
some user has 2 windows partitions installed and a linux
if he makes C:\format /MBR
wich windows will boot up next time he reboots ?
that should be answered by the windows boot.ini file.
You need a MS's MBR to boot a Windows and that is not supplied by Linux because Linux's own boot loader like Grub can boot over 100 systems including any number of Windows you throw at it.
Why would a Linux have a need for a Windows MBR?
Normally you can use Grub to boot your Windows as quick as you want. Since you didn't realise that not all Linux are installable into an external hard drive and so you may not have a partition to host Grub. Therefore Grub may not be working in your PC.
The bomb-proof route of my previous post is a good bet.
If i format my external harddrive, i only get error and cannot boot to windows, so i need to have the external harddrive plugged in to boot windows. And i use this laptop at school...
The MBR should be the one in the internal hard disk, not the external one.
You should never need an external disk to boot a Windows. Never heard of such a thing.
Windows, like Linux, cannot be booted from an external had disk. Only a small number of specialised Linux have been designed to boot from an external hard disk.
When you fix the MBR it is always to fix the first bootable disk.
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