Vista booting Linux explained

[MidGart]

nico75,

You need to mount the Windows partition of whatever it calls first.

You find out which device name in Linux using a root terminal command

fdisk -l

The Windows partition is always Type 7 denoting it is NTFS and should be the 1st or 2nd partition in a hard disk.

If this partition is say sda2 you have to create a mounting point in directory /mnt and mount that partition manually first, using root terminal commands

mkdir /mnt/sda2
mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2
ls /mnt/sda2

The last command confirms its content.

Your Windows partition sda2 is now ready to accept the first 512 bytes from the partition /dev/sda7.

Please note dd does not need the partition to be mounted but if you are storing the output in a partition then the output destination has to be mounted first.

You are using incorrect mounting point

[saikee]

MidGart,

Any suggestion for your version of the correct mounting point?

[saikee]

MidGart,

Any suggestion for your version of the correct mounting point for partition sda2?

[Marinity]

I think that he has't it =)

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