New HP Laptop with Recovery partition

[Bruce Marshall]

On Friday 12 January 2007 18:06, Net Llama! wrote:
> > Been worth it's weight in gold.
>
> How is that different than dd ?

1) Isn't dd an 'exact' copy of a partition w/o compression?  I would assume it 
would have to be rewritten back to an exact copy (not nec. the same size 
partition, maybe larger and then you'd have to run a util to increase the FS 
size)

2) TrueImage will essentially write back to any partition that will hold the 
data...  Even change file systems if you want.  It is a data copy, not a 
sector copy.

3) You can restore  files or directories.... out of a full partition image.  
Can't do that with dd I think.

Probably more but those are enough for me.