Mick wrote: > >First defragment her OS partition a couple of times (and reboot in between for >good measure ;-). Then you can use a Knoppix or other Linux LiveCD on her >machine, run partimage and save an image of her OS partition on one of your >boxen over the LAN. If you don't want to take up too much of your valuable >disk space you can of course compress the image. If you rather save it on >CD's/DVD's partimage can split the image down to smaller file sizes. > >You can of course also save it on a new partition on her box. > >http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page > >Another tool which you can use from within Windoze is Bart's PE and DriveImage >XML (a plugin you can build into Bart's PE LiveCD). > >http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ > >http://www.runtime.org/dixml.htm > >They're both free and should do the job you want. Personally, I use Knoppix >and partimage, but there are other linux tools (down to the relatively basic >dd command) which should do the trick on a VFAT partition. > >
Crap, I forgot and used NTFS on the thing. < sighs > I wonder if the newer kernel will write safely yet???? Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
