[nflug] Disk Image/Restore

[Frank Kumro]

<snip>
 My bad. I thought he was copying the whole drive.
</snip>

I am copying the whole drive. Someone else was talking about sep
partitions...it was not me.

On 7/25/06, joshj at linuxmail.org <joshj at linuxmail.org> wrote:
> When we last left our adventurers...
>
> > joshj at linuxmail.org wrote:
> >>  When we last left our adventurers...
> >>
> >> >  Heres a dumb question, does the drive that i am copying the image to
> >> >  (using dd) have to be formatted? Im going to guess it doesnt but I
> >> >  just want to make sure.
> >>
> >>  Nope. "dd" copies from the drive byte-for-byte. So filesystem and all is
> >>  copied. It will even copy the MBR. A coworker of mine used it to copy
> >>  winxp from drive to drive. It booted without incident.
> >>
> >>  You can use dd to backup the MBR  and then replace it before doing
> >>  something
> >>  risky (aka: reinstall windows):
> >>
> >>  dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr.img bs=512 count=1
>
> <snip>
>
> > Only if you were doing an entire drive would it copy the mbr. If the
>

>
> > partition being copied was on the 2nd, 3rd partition persay, the mbr would
> > not be copied. The "fdisk /mbr" command simply blanks the mbr anyway. It is a
> > safe thing to do just to be sure. If this is a brand new drive, never having
> > anything installed on it, it is probably not needed. 98 does not need
> > anything on the mbr to boot.
>
> Win98 must have some kind of "boot loader" (or equivilant) on the first
> 512 of the HD otherwise there would be nothing to pass control to the
> kernel, right?
>
> -Josh
>
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Frank
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