FixMBR command

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 schrieb:
> 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?

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 ******* because a funny person
put some windows boot-media into the machine which overwrote some of the
first sectors of the HDDs.

On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 22:58:00 -0700, maury11215
<maury11215@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>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?

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