Hi! > Is there a command line tool to read a sector from harddisk, > store it somewhere and write it back later?
While not user-friendly at all, you can use DEBUG for this as long as the sector is inside a FAT formatted partition. Old DEBUG versions do not support FAT32. If the sector is the MBR, then you probably find quite a few free existing tools for backup and restore of MBR. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user