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Title: Pointing aswMBR to Other Drives?
Post by: westes on February 17, 2013, 12:15:15 AM

Is there any way to get aswMBR to point to any arbitrary drive attached to the computer and select which drive's MBR gets "fixed"?

Title: Re: Pointing aswMBR to Other Drives?
Post by: DavidR on February 17, 2013, 01:12:57 AM

The MBR should indicate all internal drives/partitions, that is what the MBR is, the Master Boot Record.

Why are you considering the use of aswMBR as this really isn't a tool that should be used without advice.

Title: Re: Pointing aswMBR to Other Drives?
Post by: Lisandro on February 17, 2013, 01:13:04 AM

Do ask twice the same. Just double the help effort ;)
Please, follow your other post.

Title: Re: Pointing aswMBR to Other Drives?
Post by: westes on February 17, 2013, 04:08:39 AM

Quote from: DavidR on February 17, 2013, 01:12:57 AM

The MBR should indicate all internal drives/partitions, that is what the MBR is, the Master Boot Record.

Why are you considering the use of aswMBR as this really isn't a tool that should be used without advice.

David, I'm asking a question beyond where you think I am.     If I remove the boot device and make some other drive on the system the new boot device, I have to worry about the MBR on each of those drives separately.    Your question is based on some assumption that I only have one boot device, and I do not.

Title: Re: Pointing aswMBR to Other Drives?
Post by: DavidR on February 17, 2013, 12:37:35 PM

Yes, I didn't twig about your other topic on this, why it is best kept in one topic as Tech mentioned.