Re: create an image of a partition
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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
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Greg Madden
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