Re: Backing up entire windows hard drive

["David Hummel-2" <user=95@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Jerry Feldman <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:33:04 -0400 
> "Matt Shields" <[hidden email]> wrote: 
>[snip] 
>> I'd like to take a snapshot of the HD to an 
>> attached USB drive before I do anything with the laptop. 
>[snip] 
> 
> dd if = /dev/hda of=<name of file> 
> This will image your entire hard drive track by track. 

This is useful, but I tend to prefer using Partimage, which avoids 
copying empty blocks... 

http://www.partimage.org/Partimage-manual_Usage
http://www.partimage.org/Partimage-manual_Backup-partition-table

In addition to the aforementioned Clonezilla, Partimage is included on 
SystemRescueCd and KNOPPIX among others... 

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