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Investigation 10 - How can you backup the MBR (Master Boot Record)?
* Bootstrapping operating systems after the computer's BIOS passes execution to the MBR.
* Uniquely identifying individual disk media, with a 32-bit disk signature.}}
 
# We can duplicate the first 512 bytes of a hard disk using the dd command:
#* dd if=/dev/sda of=mbr.bak bs=512 count=1
# Use the command to backup the MBR of your hard disk.
# Under what circumstances do you think this will be usefull?
 
Answer the Investigation 10 question in your lab logbook.
=== Completing the Lab ===
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