On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Gerry Simmons wrote:

> I have a 4GB drive that is going bad. Fortunately, if I cool down the drive
> in a refridgerator, it will behave itself for awhile.
>
> I tried to disklabel the new drive exactly as the old, thinking that I could
> boot from the Install Floppy, and dd the information
> from one partition to another. However, "dd -if /dev/rwd0a -of /dev/rwd1a"
> complaind that /dev/rwd1a was a Read-Only Filesystem.
>
> Does anyone have a suggestion on a better way to backup/recover this drive?

	Try using the raw partition (wd0d -> wd1d on i386)

	Just had to do this to move an XP installation to a bigger disk
	as using 'Ghost' ended up with an XP that (probably) couldn't
	find its boot filesystem.
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