=2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 14 November 2003 11:26 pm, Robert.Wultsch@asu.edu wrote: > Old Drive: > 2.5 gigs on one fat partition (that just sounds wrong) > > New Drive: > I will fdisk it blank and then create a 8 gig first partiton which will > receive all the files to be copied over and then a 32 gig second partition > to fart around with later. > > I am concerned really only with the dding the MBR. I can figure out cp > again (it has been a few months away fromt he command prompt) on my own. > > Thanks for the reply. > So you want to copy only the MBR? dd if=3D/dev/hda of=3D/dev/hdb bs=3D512 count=3D1 Will copy the very first block of hda to the very first block of hdb. This will, of course, wipe out your new partition table that you just creat= ed=20 so I guess I still don't understand. Maybe dd is not the tool you want. Alan =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/tchtUIl18h7/dy4RAsEnAKC3lG6wxI/VNSHORv/qEs5N+6eXIQCcD5GK 58q+j7BYqcKkWtMPh9/5fU8=3D =3DEkfb =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE-----