How to backup boot information of a PC's Hard Disk?
- by Bear Bear
I just installed Windows 7 on a partition of my hard disk and I'm planning to install Vista and Windows 8 on other partitions on the same disk, and maybe a few Linux distributions too.
Before I install other Operating Systems, I would like to backup the boot information, just to make sure I can get back to Windows 7 in case anything goes wrong with the booting data.
I already made a backup of the MBR using MBRFix but I'm wondering if I should save some Boot Sector from the Windows 7 partition?
I noticed that Windows Vista install DVD has a "bootrec.exe" utility in the recovery console (Shift+F10) and it has some options to rewrite the boot sector of the partitions.
Therefore I wonder if there is any utility (preferably on Hiren's BootCD) to backup/write the boot sector
I would also like to know how to backup the boot data of a Linux installation