MBRWizard from FireSage

emmjay · 03. Aug 2010, 09:53 PM

Found this interesting product while I was looking for an application that would allow me to backup my MBR. As I do not have a copy of the windows installation disks (my PC came preloaded with W7) I can not make use of this option to rewrite the MBR.

Here is a link http://www.firesage.com

MBRWizard comes as a commercial offering as well as freeware. It supports XP, Vista and Windows 7 (32 and 64). I installed it on W7/32 for a test run. Had to invoke admin priv to get it to work on W7 (have not tried it on W7/64, Vista or XP as yet).

Not able to test if the copy of my MBR (now on a CD) gets me to the OS or not as my CD drive decided to quit on me (got a new one on order, but will not arrive for a week or so).

Anupam · 04. Aug 2010, 07:58 AM

Only the CLI version i.e. Command Line Interface version is freeware. The GUI version is commercial.

Jojoyee · 04. Aug 2010, 08:08 AM

Try EasyBCD to see if it is really easy. I usually rely on it whenever I need to deal with MBR or set up a multi-boot system.

03. Aug 2010, 09:53 PM	#1 (permalink)
emmjay Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 226	MBRWizard from FireSage Found this interesting product while I was looking for an application that would allow me to backup my MBR. As I do not have a copy of the windows installation disks (my PC came preloaded with W7) I can not make use of this option to rewrite the MBR. Here is a link http://www.firesage.com MBRWizard comes as a commercial offering as well as freeware. It supports XP, Vista and Windows 7 (32 and 64). I installed it on W7/32 for a test run. Had to invoke admin priv to get it to work on W7 (have not tried it on W7/64, Vista or XP as yet). Not able to test if the copy of my MBR (now on a CD) gets me to the OS or not as my CD drive decided to quit on me (got a new one on order, but will not arrive for a week or so).

04. Aug 2010, 07:58 AM	#2 (permalink)
Anupam Moderator Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: India Posts: 9,484	Only the CLI version i.e. Command Line Interface version is freeware. The GUI version is commercial. __________________ Anupam

Thread Tools
Show Printable Version Email this Page
Display Modes
Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode

04. Aug 2010, 08:08 AM	#3 (permalink)
Jojoyee Maestro di Search Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 4,296	Try EasyBCD to see if it is really easy. I usually rely on it whenever I need to deal with MBR or set up a multi-boot system.