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Thierry de Coulon wrote: |
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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 got you there. ;-) |
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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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That dd thing always scared me for some reason. Plan b sounds neat. I |
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need to add that to the "to check" list. |
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Thanks |
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Dale |
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:-) |
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