On Monday 01 October 2001 00:07, you wrote:

Please advise how to save partition table in Linux and in Windows (if possible). Thanx --doug (If you want to copy to the LIST that's OK by me.)

1) Take a sheet of paper 2) Take a pencil (well, you may also use a biro...) 3) Start linux-fdisk for all hds you have, e.g. bash# fdisk /dev/hda 4a) Then enter the command "p" and write down the output, 4b) Then enter "x" and "p" and write down the output. 5) Be sure to remember where you keep the piece of paper. Now, if the first blocks of your hd go bad, ask a wizard and supply the noted down output. I'm not a wizard, but I know that if fdisk expert output on *my* hd is... Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 612 cylinders Nr AF Hd Sec Cyl Hd Sec Cyl Start Size ID 1 80 1 1 0 63 63 4 63 20097 83 2 00 0 1 5 63 63 21 20160 68544 82 3 00 0 1 22 63 63 611 88704 2378880 83 4 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 ....then *my* /dev/hda1 starts at byte offset 63*512 (see start column). Thus, if I want to save /dev/hda1, I use dd if=/dev/hda of=file bs=512 skip=63 count=20097 (Hope that's right; did not test the count param.) Every partition data wizard on the list may feel free to comment on that. Wolly