The Master Boot Record contains important boot information which are essential to boot a computer system. A corrupted master boot record usually makes a system unbootable until the issue is fixed. Users who installed multiple operating systems might have also experienced difficulties when the operating systems installed their own boot manager which erased another one.
It is therefor always a good precaution to backup the Master Boot Record to be able to restore it. This could be handy before installing another operating system or in case the Master Boot Record gets corrupted another way.
HD Hacker is a portable software compatible with Windows NT, 2000, XP and Vista that can be used to backup and restore the Master Boot Record or any other sector the user specifies. It offers the option to select the drive by drive letter or physical drive.
The software supports two read and write operations. A sector can be read from disk or file and can be saved to disk or file as well. To backup the Master Boot Record one would Read the boot sector from disk and save it to file afterwards. This ensures that the Master Book Record can be recovered anytime in case something should alter or corrupt it.
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Is there a dos version of this or something like it though, just that if your boot sector goes on holiday how are you suppose to get into windows to restore it.
Prolly, you could run it on bartPE.
funny. I just messed yesterday evening (very late) my MBR by trying to resize a linux partition and to allocate the free space to windows XP. Both linux and windows were very angry after me.
this stuff would have helped me if it came 12 hours before (no, don’t feel guilty. I only lost everything. not a big deal ;)).
Nice. The site has a really great task manager too. It provides features that my usual favorite, SysInternals Process Explorer, lacks:
– Immediate forced termination without even asking the program nicely
– Multiple select (ProcExp only lets you terminate one at a time)
– No confirmation
Hooray for ruthlessly killing processes! :)
dude, I love the site. Enter it for the competition for the best Windows customization site: http://windows.mintywhite.com you can win, I know it.
Thanks for this beautiful tip! :)
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