Can you recover data from lost MBR ?

The MBR or Master Boot Record is the name of the first addressable sector of the hard drive in the context of Intel Partitioning. The size of MBR is 512 bytes. It contains the partition table on the hard drive in FAT16 and FAT32 File System. It also contains a routing boot whose goal is to load the operating system or boot loader present on the active partition of the drive. The MBR is used for following purposes: -

1. Holding the primary partition table of the hard drive.
2. holding Bootstrapping OS, after the BIOS of the Computer passes execution to machine code instructions contained with MBR.
3. for uniquely identifying individual disk media, with a 16 or 32-bit disk signature, depending on the file system used.

MBR is the important part of your computer that tells the operating system what to boot and from where to boot. It loads the operating system when the system starts. Sometimes when you start your computer, it display some error messages like Boot Failure: System Halted or Operating System Not Found and your system stop booting with a blue Intel screen.
These error occurs when your boot record or MBR gets corrupted and your system can’t boot. Boot record may corrupt due to a number of reasons like improper shut down and virus attack (like trojan boot sector infactor). In such conditions, you can’t access the hard drive of your system and your data may loss. You can repair your MBR with inbuilt system utility called Fixed Disk Editor by follwing these steps: -

1. By using the Fixed Disk Editor, locate and read the first addressable sector of the drive. It is the location of your corrupted boot record.
2. It provide two options, M for modifying the MBR and 0 for rebuilding the MBR. Select the proper option and press ESC key.
3. It will ask you to press W to write and Y to confirm the selection.
4. Close the Fixed Disk Editor and choose the Rebuild Boot Record menu and press Y to confirm the selection.
5. it will rebuild your MBR and now it is corruption free.

In this way you may repair or rebuild your MBR, but if you are unable to do this, your system won’t boot. In such conditions, to rebuild the MBR you need to repartion the disk and it may cause data loss. it is the biggest data loss because your entire hard drive is inaccessible and you lost all of the data stored on it. In such conditions, to recover your lost data, data recovery software is required.

Data Recovery software will help you in recovering your data. The Data Recovery Software will recover the data from your corrupted hard drive and save it to another storage media. You need to install data recovery software on a healthy system and attach you damaged drive with this system. With this software, you can scan your drive and can restore the data on another hard drive. in case of MBR, you need to use Windows Data Recovery Software.