FixMBR command

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The FixMBR command in Recovery Console--will it destroy the existing
Paritition Table?

My system will not boot from hard drive after successful POST; the two NTFS
partitions, C: and D: seem to be in good shape, and did successful Fixboot on
C:, but it didn't help.

I do not want to lose my good partitions. What wil FixMBR do?
 
maury11215 said:
The FixMBR command in Recovery Console--will it destroy the existing
Paritition Table?

My system will not boot from hard drive after successful POST; the two NTFS
partitions, C: and D: seem to be in good shape, and did successful Fixboot on
C:, but it didn't help.

I do not want to lose my good partitions. What wil FixMBR do?
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You can always reconstruct a damaged partition table with "TestDisk"
Tool (compatible with MANY filesystems!) from http://www.cgsecurity.org/
which scans the whole HDD for known patterns every filesystem has and
with this data reconstructs a working partition table without losing any
data (except that data has been overwritten).

I used it once successfully for my Linux Server which uses kernelbased
software RAID and the partition table got screwed because a funny person
put some windows boot-media into the machine which overwrote some of the
first sectors of the HDDs.
 
The FixMBR command in Recovery Console--will it destroy the existing
Paritition Table?

My system will not boot from hard drive after successful POST; the two NTFS
partitions, C: and D: seem to be in good shape, and did successful Fixboot on
C:, but it didn't help.

I do not want to lose my good partitions. What wil FixMBR do?
Click to expand...

FixMBR uses the backup MBR copy to rewrite the primary MBR.
 
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