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USB Drive MBR Backup

The master boot record on USB drives may easily be damaged. Microsoft provide a free tool for backup and restore. It is available here

Overview
The MBR is the first sector of a hard drive. It contains details of the boot loader code and the MPT, Master Partition Table. If damaged the standard Windows message of "Do you wish to format" will often be displayed. Further details on MBRs may be found here

Secinspect tool use
To backup the MBR of the USB drive D: to a file backup.dsk:
secinspect.exe -backup d: c:\backup.dsk 0 1

To restore:
secinspect.exe -restore d: c:\backup.dsk 0 confirm

Details
The tool may also be used without any parameters to display a summary of all drives on the system. The following is for a Lexar 2GB drive:

LBN 0 [C 0, H 0, S 1]

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0x0140 62 6c 65 00 45 72 72 6f-72 20 6c 6f 61 64 69 6e ble.Error loadin
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0x0160 65 6d 00 4d 69 73 73 69-6e 67 20 6f 70 65 72 61 em.Missing opera
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0x01c0 01 00 06 80 e0 bc 20 00-00 00 e0 bf 3b 00 00 00 ...€àỳ ...àṡ;...
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0x01f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 55 aa ..............UẂ
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Primary Partition 1
FAT BIOS Parameter Block Information

BytesPerSector : 512
Sectors Per Cluster : 64
ReservedSectors : 2
Fats : 2
RootEntries : 512
Small Sectors : 0 ( 0 MB )
Media Type : 248 ( 0xf8 )
SectorsPerFat : 239
SectorsPerTrack : 32
Heads : 128
Hidden Sectors : 32
Large Sectors : 3915744 ( 1911 MB )

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LBN 32 [C 0, H 0, S 33]

0x0000 eb 3c 90 4d 53 57 49 4e-34 2e 31 00 02 40 02 00 ë<MSWIN4.1..@..
0x0010 02 00 02 00 00 f8 ef 00-20 00 80 00 20 00 00 00 .....øï. .€. ...
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0x0170 10 61 72 0a 40 75 01 42-03 5e 0b 49 75 77 c3 03 ar.@u.B.^.IuwÃ.
0x0180 18 01 27 0d 0a 49 6e 76-61 6c 69 64 20 73 79 73 .'..Invalid sys
0x0190 74 65 6d 20 64 69 73 6b-ff 0d 0a 44 69 73 6b 20 tem diskÿ..Disk
0x01a0 49 2f 4f 20 65 72 72 6f-72 ff 0d 0a 52 65 70 6c I/O errorÿ..Repl
0x01b0 61 63 65 20 74 68 65 20-64 69 73 6b 2c 20 61 6e ace the disk, an
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0x01d0 20 6b 65 79 0d 0a 00 00-49 4f 20 20 20 20 20 20 key....IO
0x01e0 53 59 53 4d 53 44 4f 53-20 20 20 53 59 53 7f 01 SYSMSDOS SYS.
0x01f0 00 41 bb 00 07 80 7e 02-0e e9 40 ff 00 00 55 aa .AṠ..€~..é@ÿ..UẂ

Further details
SecInspect.exe is a command-line diagnostics tool that allows administrators to view the contents of master boot records, boot sectors, and IA64 GUID partition tables. Additional features include creating hex dumps of binary files and backup/restore of sector ranges.


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