MBR_MBR_3
November 10th, 2004, 10:45 AM
Hello,
Well,after nearly ten months of successfully using Acronis products,I finally experienced a close encounter of the near-fatal kind this morning.
I had to stay up all night re-formatting my drive because XP didn't take too kindly to Cursor XP.Since GNU/Linux/Unix is my operating system of choice,I was then going to prepare a few partitions for Yoper,Mandrake,Net BSD,SuSE 9.2 and Debian...
So,on the newly-installed XP,I installed Disk Director as usual and began preparing the partitions.Just as I committed the first action and Acronis went to reboot the system,I get MBR error 3 then MBR error 1.."please boot from floppy" on restart.
I just booted from the Mandrake installation disk,installed Mandrake,wrote the bootloader to the MBR(For those unfamiliar with the 100% graphical Mandrake installation,this option is clearly presented during the installation process,under "install bootloader".You can't miss it.)NO problem.XP is accessible again.Acronis Disk Director completed it's operation,and is functioning perfectly once more.
I would suggest everyone keep a Mandrake installation disk to cover themselves in this event.(Or any other GNU/Linux distro,just chose Mandrake because it's simple for everyone to install).
Better still,learn GNU/Linux/Unix,stick with it and use it if only to download e-mails and surf the 'net in relative safety.
Don't let an apparent MBR "oops" drive you crazy,it could be the invitation you need to install a new operating system that you will gain so much pleasure from.
There's a distro out there with your name on it-go find it.
Well,after nearly ten months of successfully using Acronis products,I finally experienced a close encounter of the near-fatal kind this morning.
I had to stay up all night re-formatting my drive because XP didn't take too kindly to Cursor XP.Since GNU/Linux/Unix is my operating system of choice,I was then going to prepare a few partitions for Yoper,Mandrake,Net BSD,SuSE 9.2 and Debian...
So,on the newly-installed XP,I installed Disk Director as usual and began preparing the partitions.Just as I committed the first action and Acronis went to reboot the system,I get MBR error 3 then MBR error 1.."please boot from floppy" on restart.
I just booted from the Mandrake installation disk,installed Mandrake,wrote the bootloader to the MBR(For those unfamiliar with the 100% graphical Mandrake installation,this option is clearly presented during the installation process,under "install bootloader".You can't miss it.)NO problem.XP is accessible again.Acronis Disk Director completed it's operation,and is functioning perfectly once more.
I would suggest everyone keep a Mandrake installation disk to cover themselves in this event.(Or any other GNU/Linux distro,just chose Mandrake because it's simple for everyone to install).
Better still,learn GNU/Linux/Unix,stick with it and use it if only to download e-mails and surf the 'net in relative safety.
Don't let an apparent MBR "oops" drive you crazy,it could be the invitation you need to install a new operating system that you will gain so much pleasure from.
There's a distro out there with your name on it-go find it.