Use RIP CD and MBRFix to easily fix the Windows MBR issue

Jephe Wu - http://linuxtechres.blogspot.com

Whenever your Windows MBR got corrupted or after restoring the back image, you have to fix the MBR issue. With RIP(Recovery Is Possible - http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/) and MBRFix - http://www.sysint.no/nedlasting/mbrfix.htm, It becomes very easy job to get it done.


Environment:
Let's say your Windows server MBR is corrupted or you just restored a Windows partition using ntfsclone (http://linuxtechres.blogspot.com/2007/07/cloning-windows-server-using-rip-and.html). Now you need to update MBR to boot up Windows automatically.

It's especially useful when you cannot boot up to Windows console to run 'fdisk /mbr' due to whatever reason.


Steps:

1. boot up with RIP CD (non-X version is enough, we just need to boot it up and use 'Boot partition #1 on first hard drive' option to boot up Windows normally)

2. Windows MBRfix program at http://www.sysint.no/nedlasting/mbrfix.htm

3. Run command below to fix MBR issue.
c:\> MbrFix /drive 0 fixmbr /yes

4. eject out RIP CD, reboot Windows to verify it.

that's it.