(Master Boot Record) See boot sector.
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- Software downloads 2008-11-04
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- NTFS Data Recovery Tool (exe)
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- Paragon Total Defrag (exe)
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- Hard Disk Drive Data Recovery (exe)
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- Back to Basics #1 - Cloning a hard disk
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- Geek Sheet: Bare-metal backup and recovery
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- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" beta - making life easier for Windows users
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- BitMicro+announces+1.6TB+solid-state+drive
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- Discussion threads 2008-01-09
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- Active Partition Recovery for Windows (exe)
- Active Partition Recovery for Windows will help you if non-system partition is lost--you can boot Windows, install and run the software from under Windows Operating System to recover deleted or damaged partitions located on data volumes (D:, E:), attached HDDs, as well as on the external USB drives and Memory...
- Software downloads 2008-01-08
- DiskPatch (exe)
- DiskPatch is a professional DOS based data recovery utility that recovers data by repairing corrupt disk structures, like the partition tables, 'in-place'. DiskPatch is designed to tackle the most common issues that prevent you from accessing your data; a corrupt MBR Master Boot Record, corrupt partition tables, accidentally deleted partitions,...
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- The Internet must not be proprietary
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- CosmicHexEditor (zip)
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- Dual Boot: Windows Compute Cluster Server and Rocks Cluster Distribution
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- White papers 2007-10-26
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