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How do I backup the MBR

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snake253

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I have installed PQBOOT. I am going to moving all my disk data to a new drive. I can use DiskImage to copy all the partitions but how do you copy the first 2048 bytes of data from head 0 cylinder 0, which appears to the MBR for PQBOOT ?
 
I have installed the following :

First C partition - Windows 2000 and W98 using dual boot
Second C partition - W98
Third C partition - Windows ME
 
OK, so you have 1 HD with 3 partitions, correct? Do you have a triple boot with all of these OSs? I don't understand because you say you have a dual boot on parition 1 with 98 and 2K, but then you say you have 98 and ME.
 
Actually I have 10 partitions on the first harddisk drive. The C drive is where the ntldr and lo.sys resides, but the actual operating systems exist on a different partition. The reason I can have all these operating systems installed is because of PQBOOT. So the MBR data is written by the PQBOOT installation. All I need is a way to save the first 2048 bytes on the disk drive starting in the MBR sector. It might be the solution is the reinstall PQBoot, but I was hoping there is a simpler way.
 


<< Actually I have 10 partitions on the first harddisk drive >>


sheesh! And are those partitions 500MB a piece? 🙂 I was going to say that you could reload the MBR with 2K's boot manager, but with that crazy stuff that you are doing, I don't know. Sorry.
 
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