Backing up a windows disk <OT>

[Ken Moffat]

Collins Richey wrote:

>
>I would like to carve out 10 gig of the drive using parted to put a linux system
>on the box, but I daren't do this without proper backup.  It's one of those
>accursed pre-installed WinXP beasts with no system install disks.
>  
>

Bootit NG will resize the ntfs partition. Sort of like Partition Magic. 
I used it without data loss on my ntfs partition, reducing it to 10megs, 
and adding several other 10 meg reiserfs partitions, and a vfat to 
share. But as to backup, I can't help you. Ntfs is generally read only 
from linux, yes?

-- 
Ken