| MBR, the acronym stands for Master Boot | | | | command is very much helpful and give you |
| Record. It is also known as the partition sector, | | | | certain amount of control over these things. |
| that is the first 512-byte boot sector of a | | | | However, these processes may sometimes |
| partitioned hard disk. MBR holds the primary | | | | overwrite or corrupt the MBR and to recover |
| partition table of the hard disk and your LINUX | | | | your inaccessible data you wonder for a good |
| system boots only after the BIOS passes the | | | | LINUX data recovery software. |
| execution of the machine code inside the MBR. | | | | These cases are a sure possibility in case of the |
| Hence, any problem with the MBR directly affects | | | | dual boot systems, however, due to human |
| the booting process of the hard disk, making it | | | | errors, viruses, power fluctuation or any hardware |
| inaccessible and the situation demands LINUX | | | | software malfunction can lead to MBR corruption. |
| recovery techniques to bring back your valuable | | | | In case of a MBR damage or corruption, you |
| data. | | | | have to take one of the following alternatives: |
| The Master Boot Record is not reside in partition | | | | -Replace the MBR with a Disk Editor. |
| of the hard disk, it is there in the main boot boot | | | | -Replace the MBR with the Recovery Console. |
| record, ahead of the first partition. If a hard disk | | | | If the above measures fail, try to copy the MBR |
| has been partitioned with the MBR partition table | | | | from another drive, however it seldom matches |
| scheme, the MBR contains the primary partition | | | | to the existing partition scheme of the original |
| entries in its partition table that is all the | | | | MBR. |
| information required by the OS to boot up. | | | | If all the above measures fail to resolve the MBR |
| Where, the first sector stores this, the last end | | | | corruption issue and you don't have backup of |
| sector stores the information about the bootable | | | | your data, then, LINUX recovery is the only |
| partition. | | | | available alternative. These LINUX recovery |
| In LINUX, the MBR can be accessed through the | | | | softwares are powerful enough to recover your |
| command 'dd'. This functionality usually helps in | | | | data from the drive irrespective of the data loss |
| taking backup of your data, restoration of the | | | | situation and are dam easy to use. |
| data and erasing the partition table. Hence, the | | | | |