boot sector f*ed

[PJ]

Bill Moran wrote:
> In response to PJ <af.gourmet at videotron.ca>:
>
>   
>> I just finished setting up 7.2 with all my programs installed,
>> configured & working fine with recovered files all working fine and just
>> as I boot up to start backing up everything... WHAM... the boot-up
>> kind-of hobbles and boots up.
>> I am called away from the computer and when I return - goodie, goodie,
>> there is a dump of some 177 mbs and the poor computer is trying to r
>> eboot... but that's it. And the
>> I scan the guilty drive and it's the very first, boot, sector that is
>> Baaaaaad. And the regenerator program doesn't go any further. :-(
>> Other than booting up with livefs and trying to copy everything to
>> another disk, is there something else that I should do?
>> I think it should work if I connect the drive to USB ...
>> But before, I thought I should listen to some sage advice... :-)
>> Anyone? TIA
>>     
>
> I think you've got the right idea.  If the drive is funky, get your data
> off it while you can.
>   
I've got another disk about the same size on the machine and I'm
wonderiing how could I transfer the whole shebang to it?
Would doing a minimum 7.2 install be enough, followed by copying all the
slices to the corresponding slices on the new disk?
I'm thinking of mounting the broken drive on the new one and then
copying... does that sound about right?
I haven't looked at the broken one yet; I'll have to see what theat
177mg dump was..

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