<html>  <head></head> <body>  <div></div> the best way.is you gonna have a new hard drive which is secondary hard drive and use that one for your ubuntu.that is what i have right now.so my primary is microsoft and my secondary is ubuntu.so if you have a problem to install the linux.you dont have a problem to your microsoft <div> </div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px;"> -------------- Original message from Tony Arnold <tony.arnold@manchester.ac.uk>: -------------- > Paul, > > Paul Kaplan wrote: > > I want to boot a windows computer from an Intrepid LiveCD in order to make a > > disk image of a Windows installation. > > > > Would this be the correct dd syntax? > > > > dd if /dev/sda1 of /dev/sdb1/<filename> > > Not quite. To write to a file on /dev/sdb1, you will have to mount it > first (assuming it has a file system on it). So: > > mkdir /mnt/sdb1 > mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1 > dd if /dev/sda1 of /mnt/sdb1/<filename> > > should do it. > > Regards, > Tony. > -- > Tony Arnold, Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 > Head of IT Security, Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004 > University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 > Manchester M13 9PL. Email: tony.arnold@manchester.ac.uk > > -- > ubuntu-users mailing list > ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users </filename></filename></blockquote>  </body> </html>