On 8/19/05, Alvin Oga <aoga@mail.linux-consulting.com> wrote: > or as you say ( to do stuff and pray ): > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb count=1 bs=448 > > power off .. > > than move hdb to where hda used to be and it should > work as a replacement for hda Note that this will break if the new hdd is smaller than the old, and might break if it is a different size or has a different geometry.