I am on 9.04 and trying to dd from a hard drive to a portable hard drive. This I think should work but it errors out complaining that /media/disk/nita is a directory. sudo dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=/media/disk/nita bs=2048 conv=notrunc This used to work fine. Why not now? 73 Karl -- Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI Linux User #450462 http://counter.li.org. Key ID = 3951B48D