[GLLUG] Backing up the MBR with DD

[Ben Pfaff]

"Lachniet, Mark" <mlachniet at sequoianet.com> writes:

> I don't recall anyone pointing this out explicitly, but you can
> back up your MBR by using DD to grab the first 512 bytes of
> your HD.

For what it's worth, you can also do this with the DOS `debug'
program, should you not have Linux easily available (why?).  I
don't recall the exact syntax, but later versions of `debug' have
some amount of online help.
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