[Gllug] Extremely strange disk imaging problem.

[general_email at technicalbloke.com]

On 21/01/11 07:10, general_email at technicalbloke.com wrote:
>
> Now, to clone that pesky disk again! Apparently the trick is to zero out
> LBA-3 before it's had chance to boot and mess with the HPA.
>
> I take it dd can be used to do that too?. e.g.
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/stuff/80gb_image_copy.dd bs=512 count=1
> conv=notrunc skip=3
>


Whoops, that'll be "seek" I need, not "skip" - Doh!

Roger.

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