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additional mbr fix for Windows nag screen

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How to Stop Installation Wizard from installing Windows Genuine Advantage Notification Startup Nag....page 2...>>> WGA

I had this on a recent XP laptop.
A customer updated Windows and got this bug, but luckily they
didn't install it.

http://www.ehow.com/how_5780835_stop-wi ... ation.html

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Recently I had a problem with Grub 4 Dos by Shinobar.

I have been using it to boot different USBs with multi Puppies etc.

I am not very knowledgeable with any sort of Grub.
However Shinobars creation is pretty good.

I wish however that I could use different boot options
for Puppy....such as >> puppy pfix=ram etc.

And maybe it's me but I find it picks up better if I name the folders....
in lower case...and use only an 8 letter name.

Anyway I must have been a bit too quick in selecting my USB options,
and my XP hard drive booted with a funny grub message,
but then would boot into Windows after 10 seconds or so.

So I had a look around for a simple MBR fix.

I tried this but it wouldn't work.

http://www.ambience.sk/fdisk-master-boo ... fixmbr.php

Hirens wouldn't work.

Other fixes didn't work.

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I saw this.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/69013

Command fdisk /mbr

" Fdisk has an undocumented parameter called /mbr that causes it to write
the master boot record to the hard disk without altering the
partition table information. "


And decided to go for it after I saw WhatsHisName response.
I used an old >> Dos 6.22 floppy disk

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... br-178571/

" My post will surely be followed by several
“fdisk /mbr screwed my disk

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