New HP Laptop with Recovery partition

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> 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.

OK, makes sense.  I've heard that Norton Ghost can do all of the things 
you named above, but I've not ever used it.

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