nilesh vaghela wrote: > if you have enough space in local drive than give following command > > dd if=/dev/hda of=bkp.img bs=1024 <snip> I reiterate: DO NOT TRY TO DO THIS WITH /dev - it will *never* end. You'll be trying to "copy" devices, including, oh, /dev/null, /dev/true, /dev/false, and on, and on.... mark "only once, and I learned better"