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Master boot record problem

HardUp4HardWare

HardUp4HardWare

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Weird.

So I had this 60GB SSD and was going to put it in a laptop I have. This *new* SSD gave me a master boot record error, which didn't bother me because I was going to wipe it anyway.

So I stick the 60GB ssd in my main rig to format it. Go to reboot my PC and I get a master boot record failure on my main rigs SSD.

I remove the 60GB SSD and attempt to restart, but no good, MBR failure. I had to boot up a Win7 DVD and repair the MBR. Also, fixing it with the Win 7 disc took several attempts with different error messages each time about incompatible operating system, UEFI stuff that never was configured and such, I almost suspect that my BIOS saw the *new* 60GB drive and went berzerk. I did go into my bios and disabled UEFI and even though it said I didn't make any changes the MBR repair worked after that.

Any thoughts on why this would have happened?
 
I had a total pain in the ass upgrading my new HP laptop from a hdd to ssd due to uefi.
Long story short, no matter how many times I tried to install Ubuntu or boot to a live disk and run a mbr repair I failed, miserably.
Wound up having to manually partition my drive on install and make a 512mb uefi partition which the pc uses AS a mbr.
Currently my uefi files are about 112mb used of 512mb available, so to an extent I'm glad I gave it the room but 256mb would probably been fine.
HP laptops can be pretty bad with hardware compatibility with the new uefi system, so triple check compatibility first before you order replacement parts.
Just curious, what brand laptop do you have? I'm wondering if its strictly a HP thing or an uefi thing since it sounds our problems was pretty close.
 
The laptop is a Lenovo X220 and my main rig is a ASUS Z87-Plus

There may be something I don't understand about UEFI. I don't remember doing anything special during install or BIOS config to install Win7. I didn't even know what UEFI was until I had this problem.
Maybe I still don't know.
 
From what I got from the Linux forums, uefi is kind of like an extension of the bios that replaces the mbr and is supposed to be the reason a Win8 pc with hdd loads into the OS as fast as it does.
I'm still fixing the old pc's for my family, so the laptop was my first run in with uefi.
Maybe the install didn't work quite as planned because you needed uefi on with secure boot disabled to correctly partition the ssd?
 
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Hmm, Not sure. the thing is, once I put in the other drive as an additional drive the system fragged my C drive's MBR.

Another thought I had was that with 2 SSD from the same manufacturer there could have been a master slave thing going on that left my C drive in the lurch.
 
I figure it is just "one of those things"
Just glad that I could fix it.

thanks anyway.
 
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