Thanks for jumping in, Jimbo, but recall (from my original posting) that this is not a UEFI system, but a BIOS one. The firmware and hardware, including the SSD, are the same as when the scheme...

I used Notepad to show that the 512-byte file contained "gibberish", not all zeroes. I assume that since the MBR at sector 0 of the device (a Corsair Neutron 240GB SSD) leads to execution of Grub2...

The whole point of this effort is to use BOTH Grub2 and Windows boot managers, each having the other as one of the options on its menu, allowing one to continually switch back and forth between boot...

Thanks for the posting, KreemOWeet. I added the "locale" and "custom:250000c2" parameters, and I changed the MBR file name and the "path" so that "mbr" was the name extension, but POST still appears...

Kreemo! Would you please run bcdedit on Powershell with admin privileges and show us what is displayed below the line "Real-mode Boot Sector"? It might show an instruction line that EasyBCD has...

Verrry eeenteresteeeng . . . Win10 seems to be harsher than previous Windows versions on dual-booting other OSes. EasyBCD seems to have figured it out, but I've been studiously avoiding that crutch...

OK, thanks guys. If you've been wondering about my reason for asking about this, I've detailed my underlying question about dual-booting to Ubuntu in the "Installation" forum. I've been struggling...

For years, I've been able to switch back and forth between Ubuntu's Grub boot manager and Windows 7's boot manager on my laptop's SSD before actually selecting one or the other OS to boot. When I...

OK, Denis and Bree -

So the returned info are just character strings representing bitwise sums of bit-position coded attributes. Thanks for bearing with me on this. Now the reason for the...

Thanks for your replies, but the command "attrib /?" doesn't list the D attribute, much less the d attribute, or any other lower case letter. And there are many references to the term "file...

Thanks, Bree, that seems to imply that "Mode" is something new with Powershell, but that article also doesn't explain what each character POSITION represents in the Mode portion of the information. ...

Neither your answer nor your links tell what d----- or -a---- means. The documentation of the FORMAT of the new "Modes" returned info is what I'm looking for. And this "Modes" info isn't returned...

Windows 10 seems to have a new set of info returned by the "dir" Powershell command. This appears under the "Mode" heading, e.g. -a---- or d----- , but nowhere have I found what these entries mean...