<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Robert Brockway <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robert-5LEc/6Zm6xCUd8a0hrldnti2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org">robert-5LEc/6Zm6xCUd8a0hrldnti2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, <a href="mailto:waltdnes@waltdnes.org" target="_blank">waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org</a> wrote:<br>
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I got my shiny new toy (Acer AspireOne). Right now, I have Knoppix<br>
running "dd" to back up Vista in case I ever need it. I hope I don't.<br>
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You might like to check out 'ntfsclone' as an alternative to dd for this purpose. dd will helpfully capture all the empty space for you.<div><br>
<br></div></blockquote><div><br>Clonezilla which was featured in October's Issue of Linux Pro Magazine is what I would recommend as a liveCD for Cloning Drives. It uses ntfsclone when it can and dd if necessary. <br>
<br><a href="http://clonezilla.org/">http://clonezilla.org/</a><br><br>The liveCD is debian based.<br><br>I used it recently to image a bunch of XP machines and it worked really well. We also used it to clone a very very old SUSE box that was used as a print server for a Risograph. Current version of ghost was completely messing up the partition table but clonezilla worked fine. <br>
</div></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Mark Lane <<a href="mailto:lmlane-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org">lmlane-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org</a>><br><br>