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Can NTFS-3G corrupt the Master Boot Record (MBR) or the partition table?

April 26, 2017boot corrupt master MBR ntfs-3g partition record Table

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Can NTFS-3G corrupt the Master Boot Record (MBR) or the partition table?

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Both the MBR and the partition table are outside of the NTFS disk area. This means that those disk areas are not visible and not accessible to the driver. Moreover NTFS-3G doesn’t need either information to function. It doesn’t read, write or modify any of them. In fact, the operating system doesn’t even let NTFS-3G to access those disk areas.The MBR and the partition table are typically modified (corrupted) by boot managers, partitioners, security software, recovery software, viruses and other malwares, or some hardware fault.