[ale] "Ghosting" a Windows Machine Using Linux CD

[Denny Chambers]

Have you looked at apps like this:

http://www.partimage.org/

Denny


Jeff Hubbs wrote:

>Like I said, it looks like identical drives is not part of the
>equation.  Therefore, I'm not real sure about being able to use dd at
>all except for recreating a master boot record and boot sector.
>
>- Jeff
>
>
>On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 22:49, Robert L. Harris wrote:
>  
>
>>I've done this with DD but you have to make sure your replacement disk
>>is identicle to the original.  "SHOULD" work with ntfs as well.
>>
>>Thus spake Jeff Hubbs (hbbs at comcast.net):
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Is it possible to make a recoverable "disk image" of a Windows machine
>>>using a bootable Linux CD along the lines of Knoppix?  The process would
>>>basically be:
>>>
>>>1.  Boot Linux CD in source machine
>>>2.  Mount NFS or SMB share
>>>3.  Execute magic incantation; disk data flies to mounted share
>>>
>>>Then, the reverse process:
>>>
>>>1.  Boot Linux CD in target machine
>>>2.  Mount NFS or SMB share
>>>3.  Execute magic incantation; disk data flies from share to target 
>>>    machine's disk drive
>>>4.  Target machine boots wo WinXX and looks/acts like the source machine
>>>
>>>I expect that the disk drives of the source and target machines won't be
>>>the same but that all other hardware/peripherals will be. 
>>>
>>>- Jeff
>>>
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>>:wq!
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>>
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