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- <li><em>date</em>: Tue Jan 20 00:39:54 2004</li>
- <li><em>from</em>: hbbs at comcast.net (Jeff Hubbs)</li>
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Yeah, I did, and it looks like it's a possibility, but it seems flaky
about NTFS partitions, which is almost certainly what I'd be dealing
with here.
- Jeff
On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 00:17, Denny Chambers wrote:
> Have you looked at apps like this:
>
> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.partimage.org/";>http://www.partimage.org/</a>
>
> Denny
>
>
> Jeff Hubbs wrote:
>
> >Like I said, it looks like identical drives is not part of the
> >equation. Therefore, I'm not real sure about being able to use dd at
> >all except for recreating a master boot record and boot sector.
> >
> >- Jeff
> >
> >
> >On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 22:49, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I've done this with DD but you have to make sure your replacement disk
> >>is identicle to the original. "SHOULD" work with ntfs as well.
> >>
> >>Thus spake Jeff Hubbs (hbbs at comcast.net):
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>Is it possible to make a recoverable "disk image" of a Windows machine
> >>>using a bootable Linux CD along the lines of Knoppix? The process would
> >>>basically be:
> >>>
> >>>1. Boot Linux CD in source machine
> >>>2. Mount NFS or SMB share
> >>>3. Execute magic incantation; disk data flies to mounted share
> >>>
> >>>Then, the reverse process:
> >>>
> >>>1. Boot Linux CD in target machine
> >>>2. Mount NFS or SMB share
> >>>3. Execute magic incantation; disk data flies from share to target
> >>> machine's disk drive
> >>>4. Target machine boots wo WinXX and looks/acts like the source machine
> >>>
> >>>I expect that the disk drives of the source and target machines won't be
> >>>the same but that all other hardware/peripherals will be.
> >>>
> >>>- Jeff
> >>>
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