HDHacker
is a tool, which can help you save sectors directly from your hard
disk. It's also able to visualize and restore any of these sectors. This
is useful if you want to keep a boot loader when you install a new
operating system on your computer.
It is a stand-alone micro-util
that saves, visualizes, restores the MBR (from a physical drive), the
BootSector (from a logical drive) or any sector from a disk too. It can
be used, for example, to save and restore a particular boot manager (as
LILO, for example) in case of a Windows new setup (that, obviously,
overwrites it) or for simple precautionary purposes too.
The program's user interface is
very simple. HDHacker displays a panel containing the text
representation of the bytes written on your hard disk and a couple of
buttons. You have two options of reading from your hard disk. You can
choose to read sectors on any logical drive defined on your computer, or
to read the MBR (Master Boot Record). You should be careful when
restoring from file because the program doesn't save the location on
your hard disk where the data was. For example, if you save your MBR to a
file, you can load it later and save it to a partition's boot sector.
This makes it impossible to boot your system. However, if you use it
with care, this program is a very good tool.
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