On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 09:18:09AM -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > 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. Quite. So you save the partition table separately: sfdisk -d /dev/hda > foo.txt For more than you ever wanted to know about how to do this sort of thing, http://www.charlescurley.com/Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO.html. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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