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Save, Restore, Fix A Broken MBR with MBRWizard

Posted by dvanarsd on July 13, 2009

MakeUseOf has a post on how to Save, Restore, Fix A Broken MBR with MBRWizard.

“MBR, if you are unfamiliar, is the first sector of your hard disk. It is just 512 bytes in size, but boy are those 512 bytes important or what? The MBR is used for bootstrapping operating systems, holding the primary partition table of your disk and other important information. You take this information away and chances are you will not be able to boot the operating system.”

MBRWizard allows you to save/restore MBR, repair a corrupt MBR, you can hide/unhide hard disk partitions, make a partition bootable or delete it all together, make a flash disk bootable etc.”

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