> Or you could boot up with knoppix or some other livecd so the filesystem is > not in use and mount both drives and do a: > > mkdir /mnt/org > mount /dev/hdx /mnt/org > mkdir /mnt/bckup > mount /dev/hdx /mnt/bckup > > cp -af /mnt/org/* /mnt/bckup/. Won't this command choke if there are too many files? I think I have run into that before. Matt > umount both drives > > then copy mbr > > dd if=/dev/hdx of=/dev/hdx bs=512 count=1