On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 04:53:16PM -0400, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote: > On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 11:11:39AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 01:36:52PM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote: > > > > > > I actually had a suspiciously similar problem recently. A couple of > > > times, everything just froze. The power button was the only thing > > > that would respond. memtest86+ showed no problems. I figured it > > > might be a bad block in swap, so I ran the START self-diagnostics on > > > the drive. The only effect that had was to do something bad to the > > > drive R/W head, reminding me that I really should be doing backups. > > > > so IOW, don't do that? ;) > > NONONO. IOW, make a backup. yea yea yea I know... here's a question, what's the best way to back up a winxp partition? I've got hdb1 as an old, much neglected, but very necessary winxp partition with the rest of the drive devoted to deb. I need to back that puppy up and have it totally intact to avoid stupid-can't-cope-with-changes-win-problems. I'm guessing the easiest best down and dirty way is to just dd that thing onto one of my network shares along with notes about its exact parition configuration. then if I hose something in this diagnosis process, I can just dd it back. All my deb stuff is properly, for my uses, backed up already. A
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