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Can I back up my MBR (master boot record) ?

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Clay, the MBR is the first sector(s) of the primary boot drive in your system, it is not a partition and is included by default when you make an Acronis Disks & Partitions backup image.  The System Reserved partition is a special partition that normally hosts the Boot Configuration Data store (BCD) which in turn contains the configuration of your system needed to allow Windows to start correctly.

When you make a Disks & Partitions backup, always check that you are looking at the Full partition list in the source data selection panel - if you see the words Full partition list shown at the bottom left of the panel, then you are looking only a the Short partition list.  Click on these words and the view will change along with the words.