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   Carlos E.R. to Mike Easter   
   Re: How to reset dual boot Linux:Win GRU   
   05 Dec 18 23:02:14   
   
   On 05/12/2018 21.03, Mike Easter wrote:   
   > Paul wrote:   
   >> Just about everything on those disks, can be torn   
   >> apart and reassembled, and lashed together again.   
   >> And Arlen is the person to do it. A little Macrium   
   >> here (partition movement), some LiveCD there, and   
   >> you can fix it.   
   >   
   > I sense that Arlen needs to understand grub's 3 parts better.  Maybe he   
   > could visit the wp article and the grub docs in whatever depth   
   > necessary.  He could also use some repair tools just to examine what he   
   > has before he tries to take them apart and reassemble, such as supergrub   
   > 2, rescatux, or boot-repair from a live cd/usb.  Even a little hex dump   
   > could see grub's part 1 'signature' in the mbr.   
   >   
   > He has 3 tera worth of disks there, 2 WDs & a Tosh.  I would hope   
   > there's enough spare space to move some things around.   
      
   Or, you can just use "bootinfoscript" script, and it will tell you how   
   boot is organized.   
      
   Download from here and run - in Linux, of course, but a live may do -:   
      
      
      
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   Cheers, Carlos.   
      
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