Re: moving (and losing?) partitions with cfdisk
2006/2/16, Mike McCarty <mike.mccarty@sbcglobal.net>:
> Remember, before doing anything to try to fix this, copy off
> your MBR, and the first sector of each partition you need to
> save. I know you don't have a floppy, but do you have a USB
> stick? Something? Anything? How about this: copy them off to
> your KNOPPIX RAM disc, and e-mail them to the debian user group
> as attachments, or at least to yourself. Then if things get
> worse, you can pull them back to your RAM disc again, and
> perhaps reinstall them. If you want a little insurance,
> e-mail me directly, and I'll copy them off. Then if you
> really need them back, I can e-mail them or send you a floppy.
Will do, tomorrow. My laptop is still networked (thanks knoppix!) so
I can email partition/sector data. I presume that I should backup the
the first sector of each partition using dd?
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