Re: Backup and Restor MBR



Vivek J. Patankar wrote:
On 12/10/06, Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> # 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.


I that so? I was not aware.

That's because it isn't so.

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