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Some Windows Apps Make GRUB 2 Unbootable

Posted by timothy on from the windows-is-to-boot-out-not-up dept.

KwahAG writes "Colin Watson, one of the Ubuntu developers, published in his blog information about Windows applications making GRUB 2 unbootable. Users of dual-boot Windows/Linux installations may face the problem, which boils down to particular Windows applications (Colin does not name them, but users point at least to HP ProtectTools, PC Angel, Adobe Flexnet) blindly overwriting hard disk content between the MBR and the first partition destroying information already stored there, in this particular case — the 'core image' of GRUB 2 (GRand Unified Bootloader) making the system unbootable."

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  1. HP ProtectTools by Nemyst · · Score: 5, Funny

    Protecting your laptop from open source commies. And maybe viruses.

  2. Re:who the fuck would dual boot a server? by maximander · · Score: 2, Funny

    Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers.

  3. Re:Move along by Jorl17 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh, yes! Much like .NET is cross-platform! And the Windows API!!


    Oh, wait...

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  4. Re:Reinstall GRUB by couchslug · · Score: 3, Funny

    "You and your grandmother likely have different definitions of "hard"."

    As long as she's satisfied, I'll retain my definition.

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  5. Re:Solution: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    What about Gimp as a Photoshop replacement?

  6. Re:Solution: by ozmanjusri · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sounds like it solved a lot of problems then?

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