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On Tuesday 02 May 2006 23.18, Teresa and Dale wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> OK, here's my deal. My girlfriend wants to use windoze, yes it has |
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> already died from a bug and it took a while to get it all back to |
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> working, again. This is what I want to do to make it easy when this |
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> happens again, this is windoze so it will happen, likely sooner rather |
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> than later too. |
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> I want to be able to back her drive up to a CD, the whole thing even if |
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> it takes a few CDs. When it dies again, I want to be able to put in the |
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> first CD and it boot and reinstall everything from there with little |
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> interaction from me. |
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> Is there such a creature? Please tell me it is free. I'm used to Linux |
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> remember. |
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> I can't believe I let her spend almost $200.00 on that crappie OS. < |
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> hangs head in shame > She a great person in all other respects though. |
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> I just have to keep working on this area. |
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> Thanks |
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> Dale |
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I've done that on Laptops (you know, those thingies that come with crap |
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pre-installed) in order to put that back if I sell them later... |
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I know if two ways that (might) work: |
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a) dd - you might have to shrink the partition first or try 7zip to make it |
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smaller later. You'll also need a pertition to store the file. I would do it |
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from some live distro (Mepis or Knoppix or so). |
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You can then put it back the other way round, but you may have to reinstall |
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Windows first to gat a working mbr. |
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b) Paragon Partition Manager. It is _not_ free unfortunately but it's good |
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value for money. Get the CD iso image (the fools distribute it as an *.exe |
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file!), burn it and boot. Amongst other things it will let you resize the |
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partition (if required) and backup/archive it, if you want directly on CD or |
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DVD. Note the software runs on a linux boot cd. |
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As I said, it's not free ($50) - but you can get a free demo here: |
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http://www.partition-manager.com/ |
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and test it. Might save your ass some day. |
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