on 7-27-2008 7:14 PM D Steward spake the following:
Well I missed something and I overwrote the encrypted bootloader on the hard drive.If the purpose of the encrypted bootloader was to load an encrypted filesystem/s, then there must be a spare MBR on your drive somewhere. Its not standard to have more than one MBR, but my spidey sense is tingling and telling me any half-decent software encryption software wouldnt rely on a single fragile point of failure such as an mbr which is easily overwritten by viruses and installations. Providing you are still on the net, send an email to one of your tech guys asking for either the location of the spare MBR, or if there isnt one, a new MBR to replace yours - they should have a copy of your original. Alternatively, if you know the name of the software package doing all this, you may be able to find (if you have a spare MBR) out on the net. FWIW, I wouldnt bother any PHB's with this - they will definitely not be amused.
Or the installer might have created some sort of rescue disk.If the corporate IT guys installed the disk encryption, they probably have a corporate "back door" disk for this.
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