Re: Blowing Away the Recovery Partition...Advice?

Daddy,

We seem to disagree about the MBR. If you are going to keep your Dell
Utility partition then you need the Dell MBR. (Although I don't have a Dell
MBR I can boot into the Utility partition with BING). Why do you want to get
rid of the Dell MBR? I'm curious.

If you don't have the Utility partition it shouldn't matter if you have a
Dell, a standard or a Win7 MBR. Some computer brands need a Win7 MBR
although I don't think this applies to Dell.

"Windows 7 has tied the MBR code to the kernel loader such that a normal
standard MBR may not allow Windows 7 to boot on certain machines."


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