Re: dd question?

An article that looks interesting:
"How a Linux Distro Saved Hard Disk Data
By Collin Park on Tue, 2005-11-08 02:00. "

 http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8661

                 Bob

On Thursday 02 February 2006 04:10 pm, Thomison, Lee wrote:
> I have a win98SE (FAT32) hard drive that apparently one of the FAT
> tables is corrupted -and- has botched clusters and who knows what else.
> I'd like to dupe the drive to try to either repair it or get the
> important stuff off of.
> Now, ghost don't workee on this fubar'ed drive. So I'm thinking
> dd....?
>
> I haven't worked with dd that much, but can I take this messed up
> western digital drive, and and dd it onto a, say, different Seagate?
>
> So, for example.
>
> Messed up 8 gig western digital on /dev/hda
>
> Seagate 12G on /dev/hdd
>
> (boot knoppix on /dev/hdc)
>
> Can I use dd to dupe hda onto hdc. Botched up FAT and clusters and all?
>
> dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdd <cr>
>
> Even if they are different hard drives, different configurations?
>
> Will this even get the MBR?
>
> Is it that simple?
>
> Can't be.
>
> Thanks.
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Received on Thu Feb 2 16:36:44 2006