Checkout PartImage
Hey guys, found this really cool looking partition backup software that seems to make backups a dream!
Check it out: PartImage.iso I went looking for a free utility to backup my windows partition. I maintain a small 5 gig windows 2k partition for playing games, nothing more. Trouble is, is that on occasion I have to drop the entire partition then spend the day, perhaps the weekend reinstalling everything, with driver-reboot, driver-reboot, update-reboot, etc, etc. This way, I'll simply be able to do a complete restore, perhaps from a CD or DVD. Why I thought you might be interested is that it is a Linux/Unix utility and has pretty cool instructions on how to setup a bootable CD for backup recovery. It's going to be an interesting day figuring out how this works and hopefully it'll work out as good as it is described. Cheers, - Perry ps. This seems to be the main support site! Here's another site you may be interested in! |
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Gnome Partition Editor
GParted is a Partition Magic clone for Linux
It'll need Slackware's parted It works! Check it out! - Perry |
gparted works like a charm!
Did a resize on one of partitions on my extended 320 gig drive. Copy & Pasted the Windows 2k partition inside a new 10 gig partition (it only need about 6). Checked the results.
Resizing NTFS-3G partitions causes NTFS-3G to mark the partitions as "Dirty", I guess I'll need to run chkdsk or it's NTGS-3G counterpart to get rid of that. Tempted to drop the original NTFS partition then copy the duplicate back over it. Looks tempting, but thats enough excitement for tonight. The copied partition is the same size, everything is in place as if it was the original. All with a simple Cut & Paste using gparted! Thats what happens with progress I guess. Kinda makes me wonder if I can swap in and out different NTFS setups like it! Can't see why not! Boggles the mind! Have a nice night. - Perry ps. gparted seems to be a good compliment to HAL. Whatever it did during the operation, HAL doesn't seem to want to clutter my desktop with every partition on my machine. Only ones that make sense does it list now. (Hopefully nothing is broke!) |
NTFS-3D's ntfsclone
Here's looking under your hood to see what you already have. Apparently, ntfsclone that came with the support for fuse and ntfs-3g can do the job of backing up & restoring NTFS partitions as well.
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EXAMPLES - perry |
how long does it take when performing any of the task ... ??
//i'm actually interested in your suggestions ... . |
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