From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 30 13:13:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from c004.sfo.cp.net (c004-h006.c004.sfo.cp.net [209.228.14.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B9A471515A for ; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 13:13:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jason@intercom.com) Received: (cpmta 27636 invoked from network); 30 Aug 1999 13:06:19 -0700 Received: from shagalicious.com (HELO intercom.com) (206.98.165.250) by smtp.intercom.com with SMTP; 30 Aug 1999 13:06:19 -0700 X-Sent: 30 Aug 1999 20:06:19 GMT Message-ID: <37CAE487.F5B2629C@intercom.com> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 16:07:35 -0400 From: "Jason J. Horton" Organization: Intercom Online Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: duplicating a bad HDD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a machine that has a bad IDE HDD. Fortunately, the IDE feature SMART realized this. It is currently my boot drive. What I would like to to is back it up and restore it onto a new drive. How can I make an exact copy, including boot blocks and everything? I am assuming using dd, but can anyone give me an example? -- -Jason J. Horton Moving Target Intercom Online Inc. 212.376.7440 ext 21 | http://www.intercom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message