I broke it! How can I fix it?

[Tony Alfrey]

C M Reinehr wrote:
> On Friday 28 September 2007 14:08, Tony Alfrey wrote:
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>> Can you please explain this?  How does one duplicate this - some blocks
>> on a hard drive -  without a file name?  How does one know which blocks
>> contain the MBR?
>> Thanks
> 
> Sorry for the delay. I had a hard drive go bad Friday afternoon & I've just 
> now gotten back up & running. As Lonni & others have pointed out, it's not 
> difficult. If you really want to have some fun, check out sfdisk.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> cmr

sfdisk looks very much the same as fdisk or other partitioning tool;  am 
I missing some additional functionality that helps to copy the boot sector?

The use of dd works as Lonni described; I was unfamiliar with using it 
to copy blocks (as opposed to a file name) and did not know that 
/dev/sda would point to the actual beginning of the drive.  I guess in 
retrospect that should be obvious.

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