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Hi, there, well, i guess i screwed it up again Lol, so, after trying Debian for a while i finally got the newest version and decided to get the full installation in a small partition (About 5Gb) just to practice but, there were some faulty things during the install ( i couldn't specify my ethernet driver and failed to get the mirror) but that was completely screwed up when i coludn't install the boot loader, both options failed and i ended up finishing the faulty installation thinking i could format the partition and just try it again later..........turns out my Laptop Beeps and says there are no bootable drives present, tried it 4 more times and i got the "missing OS" message, i can boot, but i need my windows bootable USB to do so.

 

I have made some research since then, and i'm pretty that what i actually meesed up was the Master Boot Record so, i tried the Recover option but that asked me the admin password, i entered it and found that it's not actually the one i use for my user account so i'm not even able to use the "fixmbr" command.

 

Well, what can i do?

I'm perfectly able to get into Windows, i think that's a great advantage, so please give me some advice.

Thanks.

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could just be that the computer is trying to boot from something not bootable, make sure to take out all media and try again.

if that doesnt work (sounds like it wont) fixmbr command usually works great as long as you have the password.  hiren's boot disk can help recover or reset that password.

 

also if you have a recovery disk, the repair installation option should also fix it.

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could just be that the computer is trying to boot from something not bootable, make sure to take out all media and try again.

if that doesnt work (sounds like it wont) fixmbr command usually works great as long as you have the password.  hiren's boot disk can help recover or reset that password.

 

also if you have a recovery disk, the repair installation option should also fix it.

 

 

Thank you guys, fortunately there wasn't any damage in the mbr but i'm surely determined to get that password back just in case, i just had to set "active" the original partition, still wonder why debian installation failed, now researching it.

Thank you. 

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