diff --git a/hashboot b/hashboot
index 5fcde1e..7ea5ac0 100755
--- a/hashboot
+++ b/hashboot
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ startsector=$(LC_ALL=C fdisk -l ${MBR_DEVICE} | grep -A1 'Device' | tail -n1 | a
 
 MBR_SIZE=$(expr ${sectorsize} \* ${startsector} / 1024)
 
-if [ ${?} != 0 ]
+if [ ${?} != 0 ] && [ "${1}" != "recover" ]
 then
     die 1 "Something went wrong. Most likely your partition table is corrupt. Use hashboot recover to fix this."
 fi