12-07-2009
I am confused as to why you are copying and restoring MBRs. What are you trying to achieve doing this?
You state that you have a laptop and a similar external hard disk. Then you start talking about a virtual machine with a 300Mb disk and a 1GB disk. Which is it? Actual hardware or a virtual environment?
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