backup windows partition (fat)

[Collins Richey]

On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 20:39:20 -0800 Ted Ozolins <ted1 at telus.net> wrote:

> Collins Richey wrote:
> > Is there an easy way to backup a windows partition then restore it later
> > without gimping anything that windows requires?
> > 
> > I have a small hda (hda1 is a win98 partition, the rest is a swap and a
> > linux partition).  My active linux systems are on hdb.
> > 
> > I want to retain the win98 stuff (rest of hda is not needed) then replace
> > hda with a much larger disk, restore the win98 stuff, redo grub, etc.  
> > 
> > Booting without hda is no problem, since I have a grub boot disk.  
> > 
> > I just want to avoid the pain of reinstalling win98 (mucho yucky, worse than
> > configuring sendmail).
> > 
> try and get a copy of ghost. Then you can move the wintendo partition 
> over to the new drive. Less hassle then any back-up scheme.
> 

I'm not familiar with ghost.  Does this mean create a fat partition on the other
drive and then copy, or does ghost do that some other way?  Do the from/to
partitions need to be identical size?

> On another note, I just put a new system together and starting the 
> gentoo install as I type. For some reason I could not get my scsi cdrom 
> to boot the live cd. We got arround it and am now waiting for the 
> "emerge system" to complete. I thought that this wasn't so bad on an AMD 
> 750 Athlon but this 1.8 G Athlon sure seems snappy.
> 

Yeah, I'm on the same CPU, and it works great.

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Collins Richey - Denver Area
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