Forum: EasyBoot
Topic: USB MBR in Easyboot Menu
started by: allgames71
Posted by allgames71 on Jul. 04 2010,16:53
I've made a usb HD with many programs in Easyboot with a 80GB USB HD. My partitions are .... 10GB for Easyboot and the rest in the second partition of 70GB for data storage. But now I find that 70GB for data is not large enough. So I change to a 160GB HD.

I use ghost, acronis to backup the 40GB HD's 10GB partition and restore to the 160GB HD's 10GB partition. It can't boot correctly. Then I delete all the partitions in 160GB HD to become one partition only. As in the Winbuklder USB script, it doesn't allow a USB HD which has more than a partition. I use Winbuilder USB to write one program in 160GB HD and it boots well. So I resize  the 160GB HD to 10GB with Easyboot program in it, but it boot fail right the way.

I know it may be the USB HD MBR matter. I'm thinking if I can only copy all the programs and content from 10GB partition of the 80GB HD right to 160GB HD's 10GB partition. Then I just insert the MBR to this 10GB paritition of 160GB (it is first primary partition of course).

Is there actually a way to insert MBR ? Please help. Thanks
Posted by madar on Jul. 05 2010,02:34
Did you make your usb HD patition (restoring part) Active partition??
It seems your restored partition is not active partition,and may be
i did not understand the problem clearly.

Posted by balder on Jul. 05 2010,05:39
@allgames71

Quote: ”I know it may be the USB HD MBR matter. I'm thinking if I can only copy all the programs and content from 10GB partition of the 80GB HD right to 160GB HD's 10GB partition. Then I just insert the MBR to this 10GB paritition of 160GB (it is first primary partition of course).”

Yes you can – but you need a tool to insert the Grub-MBR.
Download tool from < HERE >


Follow tutorial how to use this Grub-MBR-tool < HERE >

Attention! Be careful so you don’t destroy MBR on you “root-disk” [C:]

And as madar points out – make sure that partition one is the active partition – otherwise BIOS can’t find any partition to boot the USB harddisk.

balder
Posted by allgames71 on Jul. 05 2010,15:58
Hello balder

Thanks a lot for your tutorial. It's actually a that simple easy task. I made it very successfully.

It works perfect. Thanks very much balder. Kind of you.