-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 03 April 2003 11:25 am, Roman Joost wrote: > Does somebody know a better way to create an image of a existing > partition? > > I know dd=/dev/hda1 of=windows_partition.img, but the image has a size > of 3 GB. I thought about backup a fresh win98 installation, so i can > write the image back to the partition if windows goes crazy. I don't want > install all the drivers and time consuming reboots. > > Maybe someone know a good tool or some docs, which describes a good way > to backup the data like "dd". > > > Thanks, > > Roman
There are a few GNU/Linux apps that can image a hard drive or partition. I have used the following one to back up a monolithic install of Linux. google shows others, i.e g4u. My all time favorite is Drive Image (PowerQuest) but it is a DOS executable. http://www.partimage.org/speakimage_index.php3 - -- Greg Madden -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+jMQwk7rtxKWZzGsRAsYdAKChHPtNLZX/Uyhvd7at+aZZHMJ7FACcDnaI /QNPKcyon10JqgjbKXyAILw= =QQLg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
