A question about dd

Anders Holmberg anders at pipkrokodil.se
Sat Sep 19 21:46:21 UTC 2015


Hi!
I could do a search on my mac.
I actually found something called boot repair on the ubuntu main page.
Its just a documentation but it worked.
/A
> 18 sep. 2015 kl. 07:34 skrev Eric Oyen <eric.oyen at icloud.com>:
> 
> dd makes a bite for byte copy. it also does so in oder from beginning to end. as for repairing a damaged boot record, there are other utilities that can handle that. I don't have their names handy at the moment but will dig them up.
> 
> -eric
> 
> On Sep 17, 2015, at 8:47 PM, Anders Holmberg wrote:
> 
>> Hi!
>> Does the dd command do a sector by sector copying of a harddisk?
>> If so then one can do a backup of for example a windows partition with a damaged bootsector?
>> Thanks.
>> /A
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