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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. Microsoft marketing at work by Alex+Belits · · Score: 1, Troll

    Please look at all those Windows defenders.

    They make excuses for, of all thins:

    1. DRM.
    2. Piece of software that uses space between first sector and the end of the first cylinder for no other purpose than obfuscation.

    and attack

    1. Bootloader.
    2. Piece of software that follows the convention used by all bootloaders everywhere since people started using multiple filesystems on a x86-based computer.

    What kind of person, other than Microsoft astroturfer or complete moron would do such a thing?

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