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title: "What is Fixboot?"  
description: "What is Fixboot?"  
author: "Deepak Aiyappa"  
published: 2018-10-08  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/50282/what-is-fixboot  
category: "troubleshooting"  
tags: ["troubleshooting"]  
reading_time: 2 minutes  

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#  What is Fixboot?

What is Fixboot?\
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## Answers

### Answer by Harshal Vispute

**Fixboot** is a **Recovery Console tool** that creates a new partition boot sector on the specified system partition. In **[Windows 2000](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/31435/in-which-year-microsoft-company-was-founded)** and **[Windows XP](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/31435/in-which-year-microsoft-company-was-founded)**, you can only use this command from the **Recovery Console**. \
This is the drive on which a **boot sector** will be written, which will take the place of the **system partition** you're currently using. The boot sector will be written to the system partition that you're currently logged on to if no drive is specified. \
The **boot sector** is written to the partition designated **C: drive**, which is most likely the partition you're presently logged in to. If that's the case, you can run this command without the **c: parameter**. \
When the **[Windows](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/31435/in-which-year-microsoft-company-was-founded) boot sector** is corrupted, **Fixboot** is utilized. When the boot records are corrupted, it's also used. **Fixboot** can also be used to create a **new boot sector** on the system partition. It restores the **Windows boot** **sector's** functionality and replaces the default setting. \
This is frequently used in conjunction with the programs **booting**, **diskpart**, and **fixmbr**. The new boot sector will be written to the user's current system partition or the system partition that he has specified.


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