Backing up a windows disk <OT>

[Myles Green]

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 22:10:03 -0600, Collins Richey
<erichey2 at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 19:56:55 -0700
> Ken Moffat <kmoffat at drizzle.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> > 
> 
> I'm thinking of something like Norton ghost that backup/restore at the
> partition level. This would work, but the #@!% Norton folks didn't
> build in standard support for CD writers.  You can only use a very few
> brands of CD writers. 

Hi Collins,

This one seems to work just fine:

Make CD-ROM Recovery http://mkcdrec.ota.be/project/introduction.html

HTH,

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