[NTLUG:Discuss] dd and cloning flash drive

[chef11994 at aol.com]

I read this with great deal interest as it came at a time when I was experiencing a similar challenge.
 In an effort to get back to a Lixux OS on this new PC. My challenged comprehension have tried unetbooten,
 virtualbox all to no avail. Finally in desperation I plugged a USB external, partitioned it and loaded a old
 mint 7 that I had burnennin my "smarter" days. It did give me option dual boot and in mint I even had access to my windows files, BUT no online
 status on this wireless win 7 Toshiba.
 Go ahead and smile I am posting this to give the guru's a chuckle while I 
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From: david
Sent: 02/20/11 04:04 PM
To: NTLUG Discussion List
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] dd and cloning flash drive

 Long ago i used unetbootin to create a bootable flash drive with different tools. I have outgrown that drive so i did: /dd if=/dev/sda of=image.dd/ unplug old drive, plug in new one: /dd if=image.dd of=/dev/sda /Of course it didn't boot, even though gparted said the boot flag was set. So i pulled the mbrs: /file 2mbr.bin 2mbr.bin: x86 boot sector; GRand Unified Bootloader, stage1 version 0x3, stage2 address 0x2000, stage2 segment 0x200; partition 1: ID=0xe, active, starthead 32, startsector 2048, 7888896 sectors, code offset 0x4 file 4mbr.bin 4mbr.bin: x86 boot sector; partition 1: ID=0xe, active, starthead 1, startsector 8064, 3958912 sectors, code offset 0x31 / 4mbr boots, 2mbr does not. Why are they different? What am i missing? Thanks. _______________________________________________ http://www.ntlug.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss