Windowsby Brad Linder Jan 30th 2009
HDHacker
The Master Boot Record (or MBR) of a hard drive contains the information
your computer needs in order to know how to boot any operating systems
installed on your system. In other words, if something happens to your
MBR or BootSector, you could be left with an unbootable computer.
HDHacker is a Windows utility that lets you backup or restore your boot
record in a snap. The standalone program can be run from your hard drive
or a USB flash drive. The one thing it does require is a working Windows
installation. So if you've accidentally locked yourself out of Windows,
you'll need to find a way back in before you can restore your MBR.
Fortunately if you have a Windows XP or Vista installation disc handy
you can probably boot into recovery mode and try to fix or rebuild your
MBR. But that's not to say HDHacker is useless. For example, if you have
a triple boot system running Windows XP, OpenSUSE Linux, and Ubuntu
Linux, one of the Linux distributions probably wrote over your MBR with
its own GRUB bootloader. If you try to uninstall Ubuntu and keep the
other operating systems you might wind up with an unbootable system. The
Windows XP installation disc can help you boot into Windows, but you
might find yourself without a way to boot into OpenSUSE unless you use a
program like HDHacker to restore the boot record.
At least that's one example off the top of my head. If you can think of
other uses for this program, let us know in the comments.
Go there...
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/01/30/hdhacker-backs-up-and-restores-master-boot-records/
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