Re: [gentoo-user] Seeking advice about backup and partitioning; preparing to dual-boot Linux onto Vista drive

[James Stull]

Actually you shouldn't need any open source or 3rd party software for
repartitioning Vista. From what I heard vista disk manager allows you to
resize it's partitions. You may want to try that first, if it doesn't work
then try one of the other suggestions.

For backing up your data, I would suggest you look at ntfsclone, I use it
for imaging all my clients at work. Just make sure your disk is clean before
you clone it.

--James

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 1:39 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com> wrote:

> Dude, I'm getting a Dell!
>
> It's gonna come with Vista, and I have to use it that way for work.
> But I want to
> put a Linux partition on there.  So I need to repartition.
>
> Having learned to be cautious, I'm wondering if there is a good open-source
> way
> to back up about 300GB of NTFS such that I can restore fairly smoothly.  It
> has
> to be fairly fast, so file-by-file copies are probably going to suck.
> I'll have 100MB
> ethernet to a big-enough drive.
>
> Then, I'm wondering about partitioning tools.  I can use
> PartitionMagic 7.0.  I've heard
> of gparted, but not used it.  Any advice?
>
> TIA
>
> ++ kevin
>
>
> --
> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
>
>