A question recently came up in the comments on how to backup the master boot record (see How To Detect A 64-bit Alureon Rootkit Infection for that). This article is going to review a few free applications for Windows that can backup and restore the MBR, with no deeper technical knowledge required. The master boot [...]
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Backup And Restore The Master Boot Record
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. [...]