grubinst.exe- write failed- Vista & NTFS bootsector External links Options

[joakim]

To gain direct access to sectors within the filesystem, MS has put it nicely on msdn; http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc835968.aspx

About diskpart and offline there needs to be a little correction to what I said earlier. You also need to remove the readonly attribute that offline automatically sets.

So to script it, execute;

diskpart /s offline.txt

offline.txt

CODE

select disk 1
offline disk
attribute disk clear readonly
rescan
exit

This only applies to Server 2008 and Windows7, and NOT Vista, and is by far the safest way. For Vista either zero partition id or signature as already mentioned. I tried MANY different id's on Server 2008, but none of them let grubinst.exe pass without write errors. Putting zero's did it though.

My tool is soon updated with this (still looking for a solid way to backup several id's inside mbr or first 63 sectors..)

Joakim

[was_jaclaz]

So to script it, execute;

diskpart /s offline.txt

OT, but not much , and JFYI:
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...26069&st=16
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...26069&st=19



jaclaz

[joakim]

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...26069&st=16
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...26069&st=19

Hmm, when comparing it looks like David and Goliath, and I'm the noob with the lamerbatch..

The new version of my tool is; http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-10455

Still no backup inside mbr implemented, but thinking about it.

Joakim