dd makes a bite for byte copy. it also does so in oder from beginning to end. as for repairing a damaged boot record, there are other utilities that can handle that. I don't have their names handy at the moment but will dig them up. -eric On Sep 17, 2015, at 8:47 PM, Anders Holmberg wrote: > Hi! > Does the dd command do a sector by sector copying of a harddisk? > If so then one can do a backup of for example a windows partition with a damaged bootsector? > Thanks. > /A > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list