Just wondering what people out there use for creating hard disk images? I'm looking to take an image of a locally connected (USB) hard drive including the MBR that's formatted as FAT16. (it's running DOS 6.2)<br>
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Many years ago I used Ghost, but it seems that the newer versions of
Ghost require the backup go across a network connection (there is no
option to create an image of a locally connected HD, I even asked Symantec support about it). <br>
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I've come across PartImage for Linux that supports all the major FS
formats, but it only takes an image of a partition, there's no way to
simply image the entire drive. It also has an option in the program
that says "Restore an MBR from the imagefile",
but there is no discussion about that option in the documentation or
much anywhere I could find online. Everything I could find about PartImage seemed to claim that you had to use dd and sfdisk to get the MBR and partition info in addition to getting the image from PartImage. Having to use three programs seems a bit overkill to me for simply wanting to get a drive image backed up.
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dd would do the job, but the HD
is 32GB and I know dd will read every bit (not just the used ones) so
it would take a very long time and take up a lot of space when the OS
and program on the drive only uses a few hundred meg.<br>
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If anybody has experience with PartImage and can verify the "Restore an MBR from the imagefile" option works, or if anybody knows of another free drive image utility I would greatly appreciate hearing about it.
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Thanks,<br>
Gamble<br>