From: Andrew R. Tefft (teffta@cs690-3.erie.ge.com)
Date: 08/28/93 

From: teffta@cs690-3.erie.ge.com (Andrew R. Tefft)
Subject: Re: DOS partition
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1993 17:46:18 GMT

In article <CCEI0y.FF3@world.std.com> swift@world.std.com (Peter Lu) writes:
>
> I inadvertently did a "dd of=/dev/hda if=..." and trashed the
>partition table on my C disk. Luckily, I knew its layout and just
>manually recovered the partition set-up. However, the first partition I

Hm I think I will use dd to back up the important part of my
drive in case I ever do something like this.

Question -- how many bytes should I save? I know next to nothing
about the layout of these drives.