[ale] [OT] Re: [ale] musical hard drives/recovery from a fried MBR

[Jordi S. Bunster]

On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 16:36, Andrew Grimmke wrote:

> Thanks, Jordi, I appreciate all your help.
> I'm not sure I understand what you mean here.  Do you
> mean not to zero out the boot sector?  I am afraid that
> could be the heart of the problem, so I want a fresh
> install of the system files.
> 
> If you mean I should copy from hdd1 to hda2 using a
> tool other than dd, what do you suggest?  I guess cp
> would work.  Is there an advantage.  

It's only paranoia, but I'm afraid that if you dd from one partition to
the other, you may run in similar problems due to different sector sizes
and so. That's why I would just cp -avx * /destination/. And then sys a:
c:

But again, I have not messed with windows in a while. I don't know if it
expects any of its files to be in certain places within the disc. Like
the swapfile or or IO.SYS or so.

> I guess the big advantage of buying a new hard drive
> for this task is that if this doesn't work I can start
> from scratch with the old 10 GB drive.

Well, yes. You have a point there.

-- Jordi




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