Backup and Restor MBR

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sun, 2006-12-10 at 07:01 +0530, Vivek J. Patankar wrote:
> On 12/10/06, Hadders <fedora at workingwithit.com> 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.

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Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>