gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » hd hacker http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:53:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Backup And Restore The Master Boot Recordhttp://www.ghacks.net/2008/10/27/backup-and-restore-the-master-boot-record/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/10/27/backup-and-restore-the-master-boot-record/#comments Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:20:00 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=7898 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.

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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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