<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 5, 2007 4:09 PM, David Champion <<a href="mailto:dchampion@visionary.com">dchampion@visionary.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Jeffrey Ollie wrote:<br>> On 12/5/07, Tim Wilson <<a href="mailto:tim_linux@wilson-home.com">tim_linux@wilson-home.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>>> I'm trying to get my new laptop ready. I want to do a backup of it before
<br>>> Vista screws with it. And doing a backup of it has proved to be a pain. If<br>>> I can get it ready in time, I plan on registering. If not, I guess I'll<br>>> catch it next time. What is the registration deadline?
<br>>><br>><br>> You're going to run Vista on a gaming PC? Everything that I've read<br>> indicates that XP is much faster than Vista. Even if I liked Windows,<br>> I can't think of a compelling reason to switch (other than "Ooh I
<br>> gotta have the latest release").<br>><br>> Jeff<br>><br></div>I was talking to Dan J. about this at lunch - he mentioned having a<br>Vista laptop for work - with no install CD, and the Vista backup -
<br>create DVD thing is apparently a pain.<br><br>I suggested just ghosting the partition with G4L (ghost for linux), then<br>if you screw it up you can just restore the image.</blockquote><div><br>I want to back up the drive before Vista even boots, that way if it fails the first time, I can always restore it back. I also want to back it up after I go through the massive Windows Update list that is sure to be waiting for me. But the backup before Vista boots is where I'm stuck. I have Norton Ghost 2003, with a DOS based version. It sees the internal drive, but not the external USB hard drive. The laptop can boot from the external drive, but DOS and Norton can't see it. So my thought was to put a FAT32 partition on the external drive, format it so it boots, and put DOS USB drivers on it. I've gotten all the files together (I think), now I just have to put them on the hard drive. So with luck, I'll back it up tonight. If that fails, then I can still use Ghost to back up to DVD. Since I don't know how bloated Vista is, I'm wary of doing that for fear I run out of discs, or have a stack so big, that it is unmanageable. Or worse yet, one of the discs fails, and now I have a bad backup.
<br><br>I tried DSLinux and Ubuntu 6.10, and had issues either in booting or seeing the drives. Perhaps another version would work better. Does G4L come with Ubuntu?<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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