On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Richard Black wrote: > dd if=/dev/hda of=mypartitions skip=466 count=44 this also won't work, since the default block size for dd is 512 bytes. you're going to get a *lot* more than you bargained for. format of the MBR: 446 bytes of code 64 (4x16) bytes partition table 2 byte signature (x55aa) rday