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Re: Which Linux distributions do you use?
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Originally Posted by flameout View Post
Just to be 100% clear:

For the reasons explained by rbmj above, this command is perfectly safe.
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If you've mounted the ntfs partition correctly, you're good to go. As long as it's mounted, the concept of a partition is transparent to the userland tools
What happens if the sdb1 target partition is accidentally not mounted? Will I just get an error message and no damage done? Or are all bets off, and no telling what dd might do?

dd if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/sdb1/MBR.img bs=512 count=1