Copying A Disk

[Pete Holsberg]

Chris Mohler has written on 7/12/2008 1:34 PM:
> On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>   
>>    What you do is this:
>>
>> $ sudo fdisk /dev/sda and if that fails try sdb and so forth. I would
>> expect it to be sda because windows likes to be in the first partition :-)
>>     
>
> Wrong.  /dev/sda ~= /DEVices/ScsiDiskA.  Meaning "sda" denotes the
> first drive, "sdb" is the second drive, and so on.  Whether or not
> windows prefers to be installed in the first partition of a drive has
> no relevance here - this is not a dual-boot setup, but a full XP MCE
> install that has gone bad - likely due to hardware failure
>   


Yes, hardware failure. I said that, didn't I?

So if sudo fdisk /dev/sda is wrong, what is right?

Thanks.