[TriLUG] trying to repair a MBR

[Roger Broseus via TriLUG]

This has worked for me:

http://sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair/home/Home/

On February 6, 2016 7:31:33 PM EST, Christopher Merrill via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>One of our laptops at home suddenly will not boot into the OS. It is a
>Win7
>system. I tried repairing with a Windows repair disk and that failed
>completely so I've moved on to trying Linux tools to fix it. After
>backing
>it up with my trusty pendrivelinux boot stick, of course :)
>
>I am becoming painfully aware that I used to be much better at this
>stuff
>than I am now :(
>
>I've tried the boot-repair disk (
>http://sourceforge.net/projects/boot-repair-cd/) and it says if fixed
>it...but with no discernable change.
>
>Looking at the info that it produced
>  http://paste.ubuntu.com/14900332/
>
>I'm assuming this line is the one of critical importance:
>  => No boot loader is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda.
>
>This part has me a bit confused:
>> Partition  Boot  Start Sector    End Sector  # of Sectors  Id System
>>
>> /dev/sda1                   1 4,294,967,295 4,294,967,295  ee GPT
>>
>> /dev/sda1 ends after the last sector of /dev/sda
>>
>> GUID Partition Table detected.
>>
>> Partition    Start Sector    End Sector  # of Sectors System
>> /dev/sda1           2,048       206,847       204,800 EFI System
>partition
>> /dev/sda2         206,848       468,991       262,144 Microsoft
>Reserved
>Partition (Windows)
>> /dev/sda3         468,992   312,580,095   312,111,104 Data partition
>(Windows/Linux)
>
>The first part "/dev/sda1 ends after the last sector of /dev/sda" would
>seem to be a critical problem, but the partition table identifies the
>partition start/end locations just fine.
>
>I'm not really sure what I should do next. I'm working under the
>assumption
>I need to fix
>"=> No boot loader is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda"
>
>But am not sure the best way to go about it. I've come across several
>solutions that work with "legacy BIOS" (not UEFI), but I'm assuming
>this
>newish laptop is not considered legacy, since it is newer than those
>articles.
>
>
>Any advice?
>
>TIA!
>Chris
>
>
>BTW, this is a Dell Latitude e6510 that was restored to the factory
>Win7
>setup (by re-installing the OEM hard drive, which was not previously
>used)
>and then fully updated last summer. It has only been used a few times
>for
>Minecraft since then. I can mount the HD and browse files fine with
>various
>linux USB boot tools, so the HD appears to be fully functional. While
>old,
>is has almost never been used.
>
>
>
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