MBRtool is a DOS program designed to backup, restore and manipulate your hard disk MBR.
The MBR could easily be seen as one of the most important sectors on the disk. If anything happens to the contents of this sector, the data on your disk could be unreachable. Or the computer might simply not start anymore.
MBRtool is not an automatic recovery program but will allow users to prevent data loss (due to MBR corruption) by backing up the MBR, and offers power users all the power they'll ever need to 'mess' with their MBR.
New: the MBRtool download now includes an easy to use boot diskette builder that will assist you in creating a diskette or bootable CD/DVD.
MBRtool is Freeware.
MBRtool features include:
- Backup, verify and restore the MBR
- Backup, restore, wipe and clean track 0
- Edit or blank the MBR partition table
- Refresh, remove MBR boot code
- Write MBR signature bytes
- Display MBR to screen or dump to file
- Do all this for either the original MBR or backups
- Create 'blank' backup files
- Change partition attributes (active, hidden)
- Manipulate NT/2000/XP disk admin signature
Notes:
- New version released on April 17th, 2007:
now includes a boot diskette builder!
- MBRtool can be operated through a menu as well as through command line arguments
- If operated through command line, return codes can be used in your batch files
- Supports the first 4 hard disks in the system

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