[ale] Window Chopping

[Nathan J. Underwood]

I realize I'm a bit late on this one, but I've had very good luck with 
partimage.

Mills, John M. wrote:

>Brian -
>
>Thanks. If I had the materials I would probably go with Ghost, but this
>looks like a good approach to say the least.  I did something similar with
>knoppix and cpio to capture a moderate amount of data (c. 1GBy) from a
>laptop with a corrupted Win32 setup (I know: "How can you tell?"). In that
>case I expanded the files at the receiving end and wrote them onto
>Win-readable CDs. Here I have about 3 Gby, so I'll need to think about my
>target. Naturally burning to a DVD would be ideal. 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Brian MacLeod [mailto:nym.bnm at gmail.com] 
>Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 1:44 PM
>
>BML> Please took a nice gander at this:
>BML> http://sentinelsecurity.net/whitepapers/diskcloning.pdf
>
>BML> The second to last page is in dead tree format on my desk, as it is a
>BML> nice quick reference.  Please note, though, that if you do not tune
>BML> the block size (basically, do it as he wrote it), it may take a while
>BML> to store this image.  But it is reliable.  We use this method with
>BML> difficult laptops/tablets and KNOPPIX cds (if we can get the tablets
>BML> to boot from external CD)
>
>BML> bnm
>
>
>On 5/13/05, Mills, John M. <Mills.J at ems-t.com> wrote:
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>>My Questions: I may wish to reinstall WinXPHome some day. What is the best
>>way to capture the as-yet unused installation for another system or later
>>installation? Should I be able to repartition my HDD back to WinXP if I
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>need
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>>to (presumably with the recovery CDs)? How about the MBR?
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