Thierry de Coulon wrote: > >I've done that on Laptops (you know, those thingies that come with crap >pre-installed) in order to put that back if I sell them later... > >
I got you there. ;-) >I know if two ways that (might) work: > >a) dd - you might have to shrink the partition first or try 7zip to make it >smaller later. You'll also need a pertition to store the file. I would do it >from some live distro (Mepis or Knoppix or so). >You can then put it back the other way round, but you may have to reinstall >Windows first to gat a working mbr. > >b) Paragon Partition Manager. It is _not_ free unfortunately but it's good >value for money. Get the CD iso image (the fools distribute it as an *.exe >file!), burn it and boot. Amongst other things it will let you resize the >partition (if required) and backup/archive it, if you want directly on CD or >DVD. Note the software runs on a linux boot cd. > >As I said, it's not free ($50) - but you can get a free demo here: >http://www.partition-manager.com/ >and test it. Might save your ass some day. > > > > That dd thing always scared me for some reason. Plan b sounds neat. I need to add that to the "to check" list. Thanks Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
