<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Bart Silverstrim <<a href="mailto:bsilver@chrononomicon.com">bsilver@chrononomicon.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im"> Ashley Benton wrote: > Thanks I will try to find out and ask my neighbor for the key. I actually > copied all the hard drive on ubuntu so if I do something wrong I'll just > copy it back on the hard drive and try again. </div>Straight copy not a good idea. Things like boot sector won't work that way, unless you DD'd the drive to get a sector by sector copy. Better idea would be partimage or something like it. That will make an image and compress it with a slightly nicer interface than using dd. You specify the drive device to copy and where you want to create the file, and it'll do most of the work for you... I didn't know if by copy you meant a straightforward cp -R or dd or...well, you get the idea. If you have the drive space, dd would have the advantage of creating a raw image that in theory you could mount with a loopback and browse later if you needed. </blockquote></div> No by copy I mean select everything and move it to Desktop where it looks like it is there. I will search for partimage in the synaptic and see if I can understand it before to move farther. Thanks