{"id":3938,"date":"2016-05-11T05:08:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T10:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/?page_id=3938"},"modified":"2016-05-18T09:12:01","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T14:12:01","slug":"fixmbr","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/winman\/fixmbr\/","title":{"rendered":"fixmbr.exe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>fixmbr<\/strong>\u00a0utility updates the master boot record (<strong>MBR<\/strong>) code of a hard drive. The command is only available inside the\u00a0<strong>Windows Recovery Console<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>Synopsis<\/h2>\n<pre><strong>fixmbr <\/strong>[<strong>DrivePath:<\/strong>]<\/pre>\n<h2>Description<\/h2>\n<p><strong>fixmbr<\/strong> utility is the Windows 2000 and XP tool used to update the master boot record (<strong>MBR<\/strong>)\u00a0code\u00a0which is responsible for initializing drive&#8217;s partitions.<\/p>\n<p>The options are as follows:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: .5in;text-indent: -.5in\"><strong>DrivePath:\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nAlthough almost always used without the parameter, this option updates the\u00a0master\u00a0boot record (<strong>MBR<\/strong>)\u00a0code\u00a0of the hard drive specified by the <strong>DrivePath<\/strong>.\u00a0If the user\u00a0doesn&#8217;t specify the <b>DrivePath<\/b>\u00a0the <strong>fixmbr<\/strong>\u00a0utility will update the master boot record (<strong>MBR<\/strong>) code of the hard disk used to boot the system. <strong>DrivePath<\/strong> can be obtained using the <a href=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/winman\/map\/\"><strong>map\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>utility.\u00a0\u00a0If a non-standard or invalid master boot record is detected <code><strong>fixmbr<\/strong><\/code> could damage the\u00a0partition tables so it must be used with caution.<\/p>\n<h2>Exit Status<\/h2>\n<p>The <strong>fixmbr<\/strong>\u00a0utility exits <strong>0\u00a0<\/strong>on success and <strong>1 <\/strong>if an error occurs.<\/p>\n<h2>Examples<\/h2>\n<p>To update the master boot record (<strong>MBR<\/strong>) of your hard drive:<\/p>\n<p><code><strong>fixmbr<\/strong><\/code><\/p>\n<p>To update the master boot record (<strong>MBR<\/strong>) of the harddisk0 that contains a partition1:<\/p>\n<p><strong><code>fixmbr \\Device\\Harddisk0\\Partition1<\/code><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Compatibility<\/h2>\n<p><strong>fixmbr<\/strong> utility is compatible with Windows XP and Windows 2000 as well as Microsoft Server 2003.<\/p>\n<h2>History<\/h2>\n<p><strong>fixmbr<\/strong> utility was superseded by <code><a href=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/winman\/bootsect\/\">bootsect<\/a>.exe \/mbr<\/code> in Windows Vista.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"margin-left: .5in;text-indent: -.5in\">See Also<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/winman\/fixboot\/\">fixboot\u00a0<\/a>&#8211; utility used to update\u00a0the partition boot sector.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/winman\/bootsect\/\">bootsect\u00a0<\/a>&#8211; Windows Vista equivalent of the fixmbr utility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>fixmbr\u00a0utility updates the master boot record (MBR) code of a hard drive. The command is only available inside the\u00a0Windows Recovery Console. Synopsis fixmbr [DrivePath:] Description fixmbr utility is the Windows 2000 and XP tool used to update the master boot record (MBR)\u00a0code\u00a0which is responsible for initializing drive&#8217;s partitions. The options are as follows: DrivePath:\u00a0 Although [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":516,"featured_media":0,"parent":3793,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3938","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3SlTq-11w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/516"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3938"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4133,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3938\/revisions\/4133"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}