Posts Tagged ‘ boot ’

Boot Block Recovery For Free

14 April 2009
By Mumyls

You don’t need to pay a measly sum of dollars just to recover from a boot block mode. Here it is folks: AWARD Bootblock recovery: That shorting trick should work if the boot block code is not corrupted, and it should not be if /sb switch is used when flashing the bios (instead of...
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Boot Configuration on Windows Vista

1 April 2009
By Mumyls

Windows Vista has a different bootup configuration than earlier versions of Windows. Instead of using a simple Boot.ini file as in Windows XP, Vista has a special Boot Configuration Data (BCD) database to hold all the relevant bootup parameters, and to allow compatibility with new bootup methods. However this change also makes boot configuration...
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