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Mick wrote: |
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>First defragment her OS partition a couple of times (and reboot in between for |
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>good measure ;-). Then you can use a Knoppix or other Linux LiveCD on her |
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>machine, run partimage and save an image of her OS partition on one of your |
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>boxen over the LAN. If you don't want to take up too much of your valuable |
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>disk space you can of course compress the image. If you rather save it on |
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>CD's/DVD's partimage can split the image down to smaller file sizes. |
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>You can of course also save it on a new partition on her box. |
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>http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page |
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>Another tool which you can use from within Windoze is Bart's PE and DriveImage |
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>XML (a plugin you can build into Bart's PE LiveCD). |
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>http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ |
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>http://www.runtime.org/dixml.htm |
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>They're both free and should do the job you want. Personally, I use Knoppix |
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>and partimage, but there are other linux tools (down to the relatively basic |
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>dd command) which should do the trick on a VFAT partition. |
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Crap, I forgot and used NTFS on the thing. < sighs > I wonder if the |
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newer kernel will write safely yet???? |
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Dale |
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:-) |
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