gHacks technology news » mbr http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:24:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Backup And Restore The Master Boot Record http://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 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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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/10/27/backup-and-restore-the-master-boot-record/feed/ 16 Recover Files from Lost Partitions http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/06/recover-files-from-lost-partitions/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/06/recover-files-from-lost-partitions/#comments Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:26:16 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=5230 If you ever lost a partition on a hard drive you know how hard it can be to recover the data that was stored on that partition. Possible reasons can be system crashes or malicious software among other things. If you are ever in a situation like this you might want to try the software Partition Find and Mount that scans a hard disk for working and lost partitions.

The process is easy and straightforward. Just select one of the hard drives in the application. A click on the Scan button will start the scan for all partitions on that hard drive. Once the scan is completed it displays the working partitions with their corresponding drive letters and found partitions without a drive letter in two separate parts of the interface.

The found partitions are unmounted and can be mounted by clicking on the mount button. A drive letter is assigned to that partition and the data can be accessed normally for the time the partition is mounted.

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Alternatively an image of the partition or entire hard disk can be saved and mounted later. A Windows restart will unmount the partition again.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/06/recover-files-from-lost-partitions/feed/ 5 How to remove the Linux bootloader http://www.ghacks.net/2007/08/06/how-to-remove-the-linux-bootloader/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/08/06/how-to-remove-the-linux-bootloader/#comments Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:42:15 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/08/06/how-to-remove-the-linux-bootloader/ A friend of mine installed Linux next to Windows XP a few weeks ago and did not like it that much and decided to get rid of it. The problem that he faced was that the Linux bootloader was still showing up when he started his system. He was not able to figure out what to do about it and asked me if I knew a way to remove the Linux bootloader from his system so that Windows XP would start immediately.

I actually knew several methods on how to fix the MBR (Master Boot Record) to get rid of the Linux bootloader. There was however only one way that would safely fix the MBR and remove the Linux bootloader from it. I’m saying safely because it can happen that methods such as Fdisk /mbr would require a reactivation of the Windows operating system.

MBR Fix is a small command line freeware for Windows that makes it possible to fix the Master Boot Record from the command line of your operating system. Just download the tool, open the command line and type

MbrFix /drive 0 fixmbr /yes

to fix the MBR and remove the Linux bootloader.

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