[Cialug] Drive Imaging.

[David Champion]

I replied to this on the ames list...

I've used g4l, it worked very well. I imaged the old HD in my laptop 
with both WinXP and Linux on it, and tranferred it to larger partitions 
on a new HD.

I tried g4u a couple years ago - at the time it only had german keyboard 
mappings, so I couldn't type some symbols like the @ it needed to set up 
the transfer. Maybe that's been addressed now.

-dc

Don Cady wrote:
> I won't attest to the quality of any of these projects, but know they 
> exist so I'm passing this list (hey, it's something..) along:
> 
> http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/
> http://partitionlogic.org.uk/
> 
> Don
> 
>> 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)
>>
>> 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).
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Gamble 
> 
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