Author Topic: XP MBR utility (Read 1277 times)

Reno · « **on:** May 27, 2006, 00:35 »

Anyone know of any MBR backup and restore utility that can be used from inside windows? If someone does i would appreciate it.

Sandra · « **Reply #1 on:** May 27, 2006, 01:56 »

Dont know of one off hand Bob and cant think how theyd do a restore, maybe a backup for restoring from a floppy is possible though :?

GillE · « **Reply #2 on:** May 27, 2006, 02:12 »

I only know of Active Partition Recovery which is a DOS program. Sorry :? .

Reno · « **Reply #3 on:** May 27, 2006, 02:56 »

I did a little digging on google and found one on this page. here

The MBRUtil.exe utility saves it from inside windows. Im not going to test restoring it on this machine. Ill test it on a spare machine in the other room. When you install linux and dual boot it with your windows installation. Either lilo or grub edits the mbr and puts a redirect to another file which gives you a choice of where to go next. Being able to undo the dual boot makes life easier if i decide i want things back the way they were.

Thanks guys.