[TriLUG] Imaging my HD

[Andrew Perrin]

Assuming you have sufficient space elsewhere, dd could be your friend -
you could just create a block-by-block image of your partition on another
partition. Things could get messy, though, if you have to restore; you'd
have to boot to a floppy or another partition in order to be able to
rewrite your original one.

ap

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Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin at unc.edu - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
 Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Chris Merrill wrote:

> Steve said:
> > I am looking for info on the best way to capture an image of my drive after a
> > fresh install so I can experiment and reimage it if I screw something up. 
> > If it helps I have access to a CD-Burner. 
> 
> try Ghost from Symantec.  The 'Personal' version cost me
> about $30 (Best Buy?) and has saved me many hours of
> re-installing...
> 
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