Geek Software of the Week: MBRTool!
This week’s GSotW will help you fix your disk drive’s Master Boot Record (MBR!)
Partition trouble?
If you have problems with partitions and/or the MBR and you don’t have a backup to restore, take a look at DiskPatch. Rebuild your partition tables and the MBR from scratch, safe and simple.
MBRtool version 2.3
MBRtool is a utility 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 (caused by MBR corruption) by backing up the MBR, and offers power users all the power they’ll ever need to work with their MBR.
MBRtool is freeware.
Features:
- 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 and work with ‘blank’ backup files
- Change partition attributes (active, hidden)
- Manipulate NT/200x/XP/Vista disk admin signature
- MBRtool can be operated through a menu as well as through command line arguments
- If operated through command line options, return codes can be used in your batch files
- Supports the first 4 hard disks in the system