Thursday, February 14, 2008

Trouble Reinstalling Windows - MBR

Using the Gateway recovery disk that came with my computer.

The following window has came up:

MBRInst [options]

  • /ini f - get string and settings from INI file f
  • /disk n - use physical drive n[1..9]
  • /stealth - force installation of the one sector MBR that hides the SmartImage partition in stealth mode
  • /stdmbr - force installation of a standard MBR
  • /active n - activate partition n [1..4]
  • /r - force recovery boot on next system start
  • /s - force service boot on next system start
  • /u - force user boot on next system start
  • /b file - save backup of old MBR to file
  • /mbr file - get new mbr from file
  • /log f - log all messages to file f
  • /q - do not display anything
Options /r, /s and /u are mutally exclusive

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