Rather than purchase commercial software, why not just use tar, cp, dd, or partimage? I'm a little rusty on my DOS, but I seem to remember there are a couple of hidden system files that have to go back into a certain place in the partition (io.sys, msdos.sys?) but you should be able to get around that by doing a system format, before restoring the files.
mike On Sunday 02 November 2003 10:39 pm, you wrote: > Collins Richey wrote: > > Is there an easy way to backup a windows partition then restore it later > > without gimping anything that windows requires? > > > > I have a small hda (hda1 is a win98 partition, the rest is a swap and a > > linux partition). My active linux systems are on hdb. > > > > I want to retain the win98 stuff (rest of hda is not needed) then replace > > hda with a much larger disk, restore the win98 stuff, redo grub, etc. > > > > Booting without hda is no problem, since I have a grub boot disk. > > > > I just want to avoid the pain of reinstalling win98 (mucho yucky, worse > > than configuring sendmail). > > try and get a copy of ghost. Then you can move the wintendo partition > over to the new drive. Less hassle then any back-up scheme. > > On another note, I just put a new system together and starting the > gentoo install as I type. For some reason I could not get my scsi cdrom > to boot the live cd. We got arround it and am now waiting for the > "emerge system" to complete. I thought that this wasn't so bad on an AMD > 750 Athlon but this 1.8 G Athlon sure seems snappy. > > Cheers -- Debian 'Sarge': Registered Linux User #241964 ---- "More laws, less justice." -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC -------- _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
