On November 5, 2019 5:47:54 PM UTC, Marc Lobelle <[email protected]> 
wrote:
>hello,
>
>There are 3 partitions on my notebook, 2 related to windows, where an 
>old windows 7 resides and one with OI-Hipster (up to date). Very long 
>ago I had first installed Windows 7, then Solaris  11, which replaced 
>the windows boot block with a multiboot. Recently, I replaced Solaris
>11 
>by OI-Hipster.
>
>Now I hear that Microsoft will shortly drop support for Windows 7, thus
>
>I tried to upgrade it to windows 10, but this does not work, probably 
>because Windows does not find his own boot block.
>
>Is there a simple way to replace OI-hipster's boot block by the one of 
>windows and later back to OI-Hipster's after upgrading windows ?
>
>Thanks
>
>
>Marc
>
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There's fixmbr.exe (iirc). With legacy win loader you could provide a current 
mbr's copy (512b file) and so boot oi loader from win loader. With new win10 i 
guess you get uefi loader and can save oi loader64 file to ESP.

Jim
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