Restore the Windows bootloader to MBR after dual-booting with Linux

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 12, 2012

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“If you are reading this, you have likely attempted or actually
set up a dual-boot system between your favorite Linux distribution
and Windows. And if you did that on a computer with a single hard
drive, that is, dual-booting Windows and Linux alongside each
other, you probably replaced the Windows boot loader with GRUB, the
Linux boot loader, in the Master Boot Record (MBR).

“Though that is not what I recommend, many still prefer it that
way, even as I have written in many of my dual-boot tutorials that
Windows will, during a reinstall, overwrite anything it finds in
the MBR, and that some anti-virus programs tend to write small
files to the MBR, messing up GRUB. “


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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