I'd like to know if the gurus know of a tool to make a bootable ISO DVD to just restore the master boot record if needed as a rescue. I've done this through CMD and the MiniTool utility has a nice user interface for this. But that is only available with the paid version of Minitool.

This might do what you need:

https://ww.reddit.com/r/datarecoverysoftware/wiki/index/dmde_insert_partition_guide/

If you really want to restore MBR code, then there is an MS tool called FIXMBR.

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Hello, yes I know the bootrec commands fixboot and fixmbr. But at requires loading the repair disk and entering command mode through that. it takes pretty long to load. I'll see what the reddit has,

thanks for answering