On Sun, 2006-12-10 at 07:01 +0530, 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 No, No, NO. The MBR is only the first 446 bytes of block 0. The rest is the partition table. I assume you don't want to rewrite the partition table. -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
