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2010 Dec 23
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Report: Acer Travelmat stupid MBR check
...============================================== I have an Acer Travelmate and had the known ?Unregistered Exception Handler? error at boot time. Short Explanation: The laptop starts up bios and when the bios wants to boot from any media (not even your harddisk) the exception is thrown. Reason: The Diskcryptor MBR starts with 0xeb(jmp). The original M$ mbr starts with 0x33(xor ax,ax). Some bioses(like mine) try to detect if a drive has a MBR or if it is a removable drive without MBR. Very simple here: Sector0,Position0==0x33 => MBR => normal partitioned harddisk. Sector0,Position0==0xeb => Boot...