Fix windows XP MBR with Ubuntu Live CD

After I recovered a Windows XP partition with Acronis, I followed this posting to restore the MBR which previously had a GRUB loader from a dual-boot Ubuntu installation.

It worked perfectly however you have to download the ms-sys and manually install it from:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/ms-sys


sudo fdisk -l

This gives you a list of partitions. Using the info from the windows partition you want to boot into execute the following, be sure not to include the number.


sudo ms-sys -m /dev/sda

Now reboot and windows should load.

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