The MBR

I_Am_Vengeance · 7 Feb 2006 at 14:41

IS there a backup of the mbr in the last sector of a hard drive ? A friend seems to think so, and i dont seem to think so. Who is correct ?

Otacon · 7 Feb 2006 at 14:44

I dont believe so, no.

lordedmond · 7 Feb 2006 at 15:04

there is a backup somwhere on the hd but i do not know where its is

i think its the backup that fdisk /mbr looks for

but I may be totaly off beam on this

Mr Blonde · 7 Feb 2006 at 15:15

I did a little searching as I was bored.

If the OS is Windows 2000/XP then NO, it appears that the only copy or way to reinstall over the MBR is from the original CD, via the Recover Console (fixmbr). So it is unlinkey in the extreem that a second copy exisits anyware on the hard drive.
It becomes a little more confusing if the OS is Win95/98/ME as it appears you can run a "fdisk /mbr" command to reinstall this from the local hard drive. I suspect however that this is just expands a file to reinstall it and is not actually already on the drive as a second copy, allthough I can't see any information about to back this up.

lordedmond · 7 Feb 2006 at 15:24

I must be thinking back to the days of dos

that what i cut my teeth on and the info still lurks in the very gray matter

sorry to mis inform any one