[Gllug] Extremely strange disk imaging problem.

- Tethys tethys at gmail.com
Thu Jan 20 17:06:39 UTC 2011


On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 4:33 PM, david at gbenet.com <david at gbenet.com> wrote:

> Windows writes to the MBR - even preventing you from booting from a CD or DVD

Please explain how the contents of an MBR can prevent me from booting
from a different drive. If you were using a bootloader on the MBR to
boot from CD/DVD then yes, that would no longer work. But nothing on
the MBR should prevent you from booting directly from a CD/DVD.

Tet

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