Preventing MBR Overwrite
Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2021 9:41 pm
I've been using IFL (CLI version) for some time now... I have purchased a full-use copy (IFLNET, version 3.46, loaded and booting from a USB thumb-drive).
I have one issue that I have not been able to resolve, including reading and re-reading the IFL User Manual - Namely, I want to do a single-partition backup and NOT RESTORE THE FIRST TRACK of the disk. (This is an older MBR system - I am multi-booting using a 3rd-party boot manager - thus I don't want to mess with the system MBR.)
The manual seems to indicate that I can disable this, on a partition restore, un-checking the "RESTORE FIRST TRACK" option - However I never see this option, whether using the "Automatic" or "Normal" restore methods.
Thus far I have gotten around this simply by making sure my MBR never changes prior to any backup, so that over-writing it does not change anything. However, I still want to know how I can disable over-writing the MBR completely during partition restore from a TBI image file.
I have a feeling I'm missing something simple! Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance for any comments.
-Richard
I have one issue that I have not been able to resolve, including reading and re-reading the IFL User Manual - Namely, I want to do a single-partition backup and NOT RESTORE THE FIRST TRACK of the disk. (This is an older MBR system - I am multi-booting using a 3rd-party boot manager - thus I don't want to mess with the system MBR.)
The manual seems to indicate that I can disable this, on a partition restore, un-checking the "RESTORE FIRST TRACK" option - However I never see this option, whether using the "Automatic" or "Normal" restore methods.
Thus far I have gotten around this simply by making sure my MBR never changes prior to any backup, so that over-writing it does not change anything. However, I still want to know how I can disable over-writing the MBR completely during partition restore from a TBI image file.
I have a feeling I'm missing something simple! Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance for any comments.
-Richard