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Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> Dude, I'm getting a Dell! |
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> It's gonna come with Vista, and I have to use it that way for work. |
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> But I want to |
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> put a Linux partition on there. So I need to repartition. |
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> Having learned to be cautious, I'm wondering if there is a good open-source way |
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> to back up about 300GB of NTFS such that I can restore fairly smoothly. It has |
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> to be fairly fast, so file-by-file copies are probably going to suck. |
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> I'll have 100MB |
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> ethernet to a big-enough drive. |
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> Then, I'm wondering about partitioning tools. I can use |
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> PartitionMagic 7.0. I've heard |
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> of gparted, but not used it. Any advice? |
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> TIA |
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> ++ kevin |
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If I recall correctly they no longer actually ship a windoze CD/DVD to |
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install/restore from, don't forget to make your copies just in case you |
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make a mistake and have to reinstall windoze. I would hate for you to |
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have to go buy a copy of something you already had to pay for. |
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Good luck. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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