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Questions tagged [hybrid-mbr]

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Windows on a hybrid MBR/GPT

I thought I'd finally relegated Windows to life inside a virtual machine, but alas, I came across some games I'd like to play that just won't do in that setup. In the days since Windows last occupied its own specified chunk of my disk I've done a…
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Switch Windows 8 from a hybrid MBR/GPT => GPT only on Macbook Pro Retina

I used DiskUtility+Bootcamp Wizard to setup my hard drive for Windows 8 (final MSDN). Somewhere in that process, the Apple tools turned my GPT disk into a hybrid MBR/GPT. All four of my MBR's primary partitions are consumed as follows: EFI…
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How do I get the MBR Partition table with newest fdisk?

I need to examine the MBR part of a hybrid MBR/GPT USB Stick. My version of fdisk (fdisk from util-linux 2.29) lists the GPT partition table, which older versions of fdisk does not. Tried solutions: I can't find any switch to force it to read the…
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Boot Windows 7 after Mac OS upgrade to Sierra

Upgraded Mac OS from Lion to Sierra. After that can't boot to Windows 7, successfully mounted and readable under Mac however. Boot with Bootcamp or with newly installed rEFInd leads to this message: No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press…
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Windows and hybrid MBR on removable USB disk

I carry an USB thumbdrive with me. It contains a data partition, an Ubuntu Linux installation and an EFI System Partition. It uses a hybrid MBR so I can boot from it on modern EFI-only and legacy BIOS systems. In both partition tables, the same…
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Is there a way to boot Windows 8 from a hybrid GPT/MBR disk?

OK. Right now I have a perfectly working dual boot laptop with Ubuntu 12.10 and Microsoft Windows 8 (both in UEFI mode). The disk is partitioned in GPT format (needed by Windows UEFI installation and preferred by me). What I would like now is to…
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Restore Windows boot from Ubuntu

I have a Macbook with triple boot based on rEFIt and custom-configured hybrid MBR. Recently I needed to resize partitions a couple of times (due to reasons which are not important to this question). Since I was resizing system partition which…
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Gparted implicitly converts protective MBR to hybrid when creating a NTFS partition

Gparted is implicilty converting my protective MBR to a hybrid MBR without asking me and without telling me, thus breaking everything I'm trying to do (making a NTFS partition that's accessible on Windows 7). After creating a new GPT partition…
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Bootcamp Partition Issues

Okay, so I have OS X 10.11 and Windows 8.1 partitioned on my computer, I installed windows using efi. I decided to add an additional partition to my computer, but windows decided that it didn't like that and now it isn't booting. I think the…
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Does rEFInd need code in the MBR to boot windows on a Mac?

I have read many posts regarding installing and booting Windows on Mac computers. Many procedures use rEFInd to boot a BIOS install of Windows. The procedures do not seem to indicate any installation of code in the MBR. So either the assumption is…
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rEFIt on Mac won't boot into USB Installation after OS is installed

Recently I have used Bootcamp to install Windows 7 Professional (64bit) on my Mac Book Air 3,2. I didn't have a CD/DVD so I used ISO and USB. This is how I did it: Use VirtualBox to install the Windows ISO Use the Virtual Windows to copy the ISO…
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Recover exFat partition

I have been working on fixing my bootcamp partition, but in the process I make a big mistake. I ran 'bootrec /fixmbr' and bootrec /fixboot on the wrong disk. My data is now inaccessible, if not lost. I have ran testdisk and it has found a partition,…
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Hybrid MBR/Triple Boot on a Macbook

I made the choice to make a triple boot on my 2008 macbook 5,1 with mac OSX 10.6.8, elementary OS and Windows 7 (64bit). I ended up doing this without much knowledge of what would happen to my GPT/MBR. The installation process I followed was very…
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Windows 10 EFI installation in MBP 8.2 (without bootcamp)

I know this topic has been covered extensively, but trust me, this has not been resolved yet: I want to do an EFI Windows 10 installation on a MacBookPro8.2 (early 2011) running El Capitan. Using Bootcamp Assistant you can only install Windows in…
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