-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday, 2011-10-29 at 10:09 +1030, Rodney Baker wrote:
Anyway, I've dumped the Windows partition (now 43GB) and the recovery partition (10GB, near enough) with dd if=/dev/sda<1,2> of=<image_name> to a terabyte USB drive, but my question is this. Should I backup the partition table from the original drive as well, to ease the process of restoring it back to its current state before I completely blow away these 2 partitions of the HDD in the laptop? What is the correct way to do this, apart from pen and paper?
I would backup the entire HD using dd. Ie, using if=/dev/sdX. It copies all, not each partition separately. For this situation it is better, IMO. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 11.4 x86_64 "Celadon" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk6rUBkACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XdjwCdEHR7oKBqPlWw5Nu8IlYpBk0r jqYAoIscXQAgprUzX6Ft2r9FQa2JqGXE =96bs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org