I messed up my system drive's MBR
I messed up my system drive's MBR (not badly*) yesterday. Fortunately, the day before I had created my first ATI image of the full system drive.
I wish to get back my MBR from the image, while not getting back the rest of the image (one partition, "C"), because my image is 2 days old now. I appears to me that, and I see how, the Boot Media's Recovery Wizard allows me to do this. And from the manual, it appears that I want to also check "Recover disk signature".
Does my plan sound proper? (Forgive me for asking--I was tempted to go ahead and do it--but MBR and disk signature are mysterious to me, so could someone let me know if my plan is a bad one?
Incidentally, after this I will create my first Incremental, then promptly swap in a New HDD for this system drive then do a full restore to it.
*I installed grub4dos which, just after the BIOS on system boot, briefly displays a screen/pauses to look for a file called "grldr" (after a couple seconds the boot proceeds AOK since the file isn't there). I was trying to make a USB bootable USB stick. I mistakenly modified the MBR of my system drive instead.


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In reply to Coyote, if you boot from the… by truwrikodrorow…

Thank you very much for your reassuring reply, Steve!
Yes I saw those boot media restore options; I'll go ahead and use them. Sorry I wasn't confident enough not to bother you good folks!
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Wow, that MBR restore couldn't have been easier, quicker, or more successful! Thank you again, Steve!
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Glad to hear your good news, thanks again for giving feedback.
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