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Technical Help & Discussion => Windows PCs & Software: Help, News & Discussion => Topic started by: Reno on May 27, 2006, 00:35

Title: XP MBR utility
Post by: 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.  :)

Title: XP MBR utility
Post by: Sandra 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  :?

Title: XP MBR utility
Post by: GillE on May 27, 2006, 02:12

I only know of Active Partition Recovery (http://www.gold-software.com/download9062.html) which is a DOS program.  Sorry  :? .

Title: XP MBR utility
Post by: Reno on May 27, 2006, 02:56

I did a little digging on google and found one on this page. here (http://mirror.href.com/thestarman/asm/mbr/BootToolsRefs.htm)

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.