backup windows partition (fat)

[Collins Richey]

On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 06:48:16 -0800 Ken Moffat <kmoffat at drizzle.com> wrote:

> Mike Reinehr wrote:
> 
> >Rather than purchase commercial software, why not just use tar, cp, dd, or 
> >partimage? 
> >
> >
> >
> >  
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> Partimage will back up to a file, and restore a partition. Don't know 
> about 'fat' partition support. I assume it's in there.
> 
> http://www.sysresccd.org/systools.en.php
> looks like a nice set of tools that might help.
> 

Thanks, partimage is the answer!

I was able to run partimage to save the win98 partition, swap out the drive,
reboot and fdisk, then restore the image to the new drive.  win98 comes up just
fine.

Unfortunately, after all is said and done, I only gained 2 gig!  My spare
drive wasn't as large as I remembered <groan>.  Oh well, I'm sure I'll be doing
this again when I have some spare change for a new drive.

Thanks for the help.

-- 
Collins Richey - Denver Area
if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the 
worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.