From: "Jim C. Brown" <jma5@umd.edu>
To: Andr? Braga <meianoite@gmail.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: making a raw disk image
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 11:50:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050722155001.GA15418@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2ad73a0507220616598c942b@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 10:16:42AM -0300, Andr? Braga wrote:
> 2005/7/22, U n d e r a c h i e v e r EMAIL HIDDEN:
> > Jim C. Brown did not write:
> > thanks -- whilst that's not exactly the answer I want
> >
> > oh, to bite the bullet and kills windows then?
>
> If it's the first partition on the disk, just use dd to copy from the
> beginning of the drive up to the last sector of the partition and dump
> this on a file. Use that file as a raw image. The relevant part on
> number of sectors will be on the MBR. For tidyness, run fdisk on that
> image and delete the other partition entries.
>
> If it's not... Then I'm out of ideas :)
>
The technique I gave works perfectly well even if the partition is not the first
one.
--
Infinite complexity begets infinite beauty.
Infinite precision begets infinite perfection.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-22 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-19 8:03 [Qemu-devel] making a raw disk image U n d e r a c h i e v e r
2005-07-19 13:18 ` Jim C. Brown
2005-07-22 9:09 ` [Qemu-devel] " U n d e r a c h i e v e r
2005-07-22 13:16 ` André Braga
2005-07-22 15:50 ` Jim C. Brown [this message]
2005-07-23 4:42 ` André Braga
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