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Cannot access a disk containing data without reinitializing it
It is unlikely initialize will even work. The drive is probably 'done for' as far as DIY methods are concerned. This is the give-away:
Disk Management is not correctly displaying the drive
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Is there a way to read the contents of the master boot record?
It's more fun probably when using some disk editor that can interpret disk structures like the MBR partition tables for you. My favorite tool is DMDE (https://www.dmde.com), the disk editor is fully ...
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Is there a way to read the contents of the master boot record?
For BIOS system, the first 512 bytes on disk are the boot sector.
xxd -l 512 /dev/sda
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