Hi, Chris, *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 01-Feb-06 at 17:37 Chris M wrote: <snippety> Your desire to do this on a PeeCee is not at all far-fetched. There exists a Windows-based package from Micro-Magic, called SCSI Mechanic, that can make an exact bit-for-bit image file out of them. Very handy for data forensics and image preservation, and it doesn't give a flying banana what the original OS or filesystem on the disk is: It just does a bit-for-bit, period. SCSI Mechanic will also work on IDE drives. Its drivers re-interpret IDE interfaces as SCSI. I have not yet tried it with MFM/RLL interfaces, though I think it would be an interesting experiment. The only downside is that SCSI Mechanic is not cheap (about $130 for a downloaded package). The upside is that it's a really versatile and well-written utility that can do a lot more than take image snapshots. Check http://www.scsimechanic.com for details. Don't the Unix-based OS's have a similar capability with the 'dd' function, BTW? Or does that not do the boot sectors? I find this sort of thread particularly interesting. I'll be curious to see what other listmembers have to say about it. Happy hunting. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Bruce Lane, Owner & Head Hardware Heavy, Blue Feather Technologies -- http://www.bluefeathertech.com kyrrin (at) bluefeathertech do/t c=o=m "If Salvador Dali had owned a computer, would it have been equipped with surreal ports?"