Re: Backup and Restor MBR

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Subject: Re: Backup and Restor MBR
From: Hadders <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 10:48:08 +0800
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Vivek J. Patankar wrote:

On 12/10/06, Hadders <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm going to install Vista (dual-boot) and was wondering if it was easy
to just back it up rather than running grub?


# dd if=/dev/hda of=/path/filename bs=512 count=1

okay, I know that one, hadn't realised that 512bytes was the entire MBR.

I would assume I can just reverse the input file (if) and output file(of) statements to restore?


Thanks

References:
- Backup and Restor MBR
  - From: Hadders
- Re: Backup and Restor MBR
  - From: Vivek J. Patankar