Hello, > However, the good drive started on sector 63 and the new drive want's to > start > on sector 2048. Fdisk won't let me create the partition table on the new > drive as it is on the old drive.
Recent versions of fdisk require partitions to begin on a 1MB boundary; this among other things guarantees that there are no alignment issues with 4k-sector drives. If you really need to use fdisk for this task you can start it in compatibility mode (i.e. "fdisk -c=dos"). The recommended way of preparing the new drive, though, is to simply use sfdisk to copy the partition table from the existing one: sfdisk -d <old drive> | sfdisk -L <new drive> andrea
