[plug] dd'ing Windows disks

[Cameron Patrick]

On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 11:24:59AM +0800, Derek Fountain wrote:
| On Saturday 13 September 2003 11:04, Ben New wrote:
| > maybe this is just ignorance talking, but does dd copy the mbr? cus i'm
| > guessing it won't boot if the mbr isn't copied :-}
| 
| Yeah, I wondered that. I wouldn't know how to find out though. :o}

It does copy the MBR, it's the first 512 bytes of /dev/hdX.  Possibly
the disc geometry is slightly different though and thus your partition
table and all your partitions are screwed up?

Cameron.
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