Tuesday, September 1, 2009

about master boot record - mbr

just got a task that involves mbr, so i manage to find some good links on mbr...


Assembly code on how to read boot sector
http://bootmaster.filerecovery.biz/appnote4.html

backing up mbr using the dd command, but only for Unix*
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/backing_up_your_master_boot_record
dd if=/dev/hda of=/home/richmondg/mbr_backup bs=512 count=1

dd if=/dev/sda of=mbr.bin bs=512 count=1

http://www.ntfs.com/mbr.htm say the mbr is always at track (cylinder) 0, side (head) 0, and sector 1.

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