Hi Dave many thanks to all those who sent replies. Life is complicated enough these days and I am grateful for the gentle prod to remember about oseek. Laptops in particular also have other partitions to consider. E.g. typically (?) a Dell Inspiron may have a hibernation slice (in that case ID 132) which still has to be treated as a binary blob and is not easy to recreate from a DOS world - I prefer FreeBSD as the utilities enable a closer match to partition sizes and IDs - e.g. an 'identical' disk model may have different geometry as far as the BIOS is concerned. Anyone else use FreeBSD? If I take a full dd image (e.g. /dev/ad2) which consists of 2 slices ad2s1 and ad2s2 each of which is a different disk ID (e.g. weird hibernation and a FAT32) and then try to write it back using dd and of=/dev/ad2 I get an 'Operation not permitted' error - I am fairly confident that a seperate dd extraction and write back will work in such cases (i.e. read and write ad2s1). Just curious as to if anyone using the minmal DOS methods has any success or failure reports for these cases. I am going to have to run some tests on realistic examples rather than test real case work. regards Neil ----------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com
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