I have a 20GB image of /dev/hda1 that I wrote to a spare harddrive
several months ago.  I'm trying to "recover" it like I have done
successfully a couple of times before.  For some reason, I can't get it
to work.

I put the spare IDE drive in as a secondary.  I boot knoppix.  The
primary IDE drive shows up as /dev/hda and the secondary shows up as
/dev/hdd.

knoppix# mount /dev/hdd1 /mnt/hdd1
knoppix# dd if=/mnt/hdd1/w2k.fat32.img of=/dev/hda
 { 35 minutes later }

I check the results:
knoppix# mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1
knoppix# ls /mnt/hda1
 { bunch-o-wormdows directories, looks fine }

Next, I make the first partition bootable:
knoppix# fdisk /dev/hda
 { Type 'a', '1', 'w' }

knoppix# shutdown -r now
 { Hangs after POST }

Looks like the MBR is missing.  I don't have a M$ box to steal the MBR
from, so I boot a WinTooKay install CD (which takes about 1.7 eons) and
enter the "Recovery Console".  I use the "FIXMBR" command and reboot.

"Invalid partition table"

I'm in the #plugaz channel on irc.freenode.net if anyone wants to take
pity on me.  ;-)

...Kevin




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