12-09-2012
The dd utility can either be used to copy an entire disk or any sectors of the disk that you specify. You can easily use it to make a copy of any MBR partition. You need to know the starting sector for your partition and the number of sectors in that partition. Then you use the "skip" option to skip to the start sector of the partition and the "count" option to specify the number of sectors to copy.
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