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Learning about boot sectors and editing them?
What is a good tutorial about boot sectors and specifically about Windows 7 booting process? For example, if I have a Windows 7 partition copied, but the boot manager and all boot information was present on a different physical drive that has since been destroyed, how would I go about viewing and editing the boot sector to make the system boot again? I assume the boot sector should contain a few bytes of data pointing to some sort of preliminary Windows 7 system file present on all Windows 7 installations that then launches the rest of the OS. Is there a tutorial for this? I'd like to know what I'm doing when I backup/restore images instead of doing trial and error until something works.