Forgot two details, added them now. =================================== This is for some interesting challenge: I have some leasing-notebook from my company, on which NT4 is installed and I was not given any installation disk/cd nor manual. This is why I have to copy that whole EXISTING NT partition using... dd if=/dev/hda of=/data/nt4.img My problem at this time is that both the old NT4 and the new NT4 partition have to be precisely the same size (AFAIRC), which I have yet to encounter... As I have noticed now, the partitions (source and target) have not exactly the same size, they are as follows (according to fdisk): NTFS partition: 2096451 blocks (source partition) NTFS partition: 2104483 blocks (target partition) So the target is a little larger than the original. Do I have to resize the target to fit to the original or is that not a problem? Now, that I have come this far, do I need to use the Blocksize (bs) and Count Parameters when I want to copy THE WHOLE partition to an image file? Can I not simply skip these values? Otherwise, to my humble knowledge, I shall go through this - hopefully correct - way of calculation: Units according to fdisk on the nr4 harddisk: Units = cylinders of x * y bytes (y is typically 512 bytes large) bs equals x, that's for sure, but what about count? Or what about Bcount? That what value should I set that one? *Just in case I need this calculation* Am I right in that this way the Partition Boot Record (NOT the mbr!) is copied as well? (Need it for NT4 boot.) Any friendly help appreciated - excuse my english, thanks ahead. -- *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤Oliver@home*º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq