How To Restore the Master Boot Record in Windows 7

Anyone who’s ever played around with partitions and dual booting different OS’ knows that the Master Boot Record (MBR) is always overwritten and keeps the user from booting back into their original Windows 7 installation. Recently, I underwent the tedious task of trying to install Mac OSX Leopard on PC hardware and ran into many issues including a problem with restoring the MBR to the previous Windows 7 installation. Usually, running the repair option from the Windows 7 Install disc works it’s magic and the Startup Repair fixes the issue, but it was not to be the case this time. What I had to do, was use the command prompt and use the BOOTSECT.EXE command to fix the MBR.

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