Good point about DD wiping the partion table. Thanks for the offer of chatting
it out but I will chicken out of learning how to resize partions for the time
being and instead create the partions, copy over the files, and stick in a
windows install disk and go to the recover console.

If I have issues with that I will beg help some other night. IF that is the case
I will send you an email off list to beg help.

Thanks a ton for the help.


Quoting Alan Dayley <alandd@consultpros.com>:

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> 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=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=512 count=1
> 
> 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
> created 
> so I guess I still don't understand.  Maybe dd is not the tool you
> want.
> 
> Alan
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