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Attempting a Recovery - Do I use Recovery of MBR Option?

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Why should, or shouldn't I, use the option of recoverying the MBR and track 0 of the hard drive for a primary/boot partition?

I'm learning by doing, but still having questions. Thanks for your help!

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In most cases, you don't need to restore the MBR and track 0.
You need to when the disk is brand new (there is no existing MBR), or when the MBR has been damaged/altered by something else (a failed boot loader installation), or when you have special partitions on your disk that use special code in your MBR that you might have lost if you activated the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager.

To be on the safe side I always include the MBR in my restores. In early versions of TI restoration of the MBR was included automatically and I have not found any circumstances where restoring an MBR has done any harm. So when faced with a whole disk restore and one does not know the reason for failure it makes sense to me to include the MBR because its corruption may have been the cause of the problem.

I agree with xpilot. When I restore my whole disk, I know there is no partition change, etc... I restore the MBR and track0, although it is probably not necessary.
If I made changes to the disk partitions, the boot records, then I would restore partition by partition (not the whole disk). Then restoring the MBR as the last step.

There is a good discussion about the MBR here:
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/17793#comment-53570