[nlug] Re: Hard Drive Failure imminent

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sup

> She runs windows and I need to know if booting with a Linux Live CD and
> doing a DD from one drive to the other will transfer everything
> including the windows installation, boot sectors, etc.

It will exactly copy the contents including any fragmentation. I've
heard you can do cp /dev/hda /dev/hdb and copy contents including boot
sectors but not the fragmentation.

> On a side note, does anyone
> know the max support drive size for a 440BX motherboard (Asus P2B-F I
> think).

137GB (instituted in ATA-3 standard, you have an ATAPI-4 chipset, UMDA33)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Technology_Attachment

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