Before I blow windows away....

[Mark Phillips]

Stephen,

One caveat with clonezilla - it cannot handle a disk to disk clone if the
source has 512 byte sectors and the destination has 4096 byte sectors. Many
of the new, larger, drives use 4096 byte sectors, and this is a problem
than clonezilla has not yet addressed (I have been waiting 6 months). Their
work around is to copy an image to another storage location, then copy the
image back to the destination. However, you end up with a 4096 byte sector
hard drive formatted with 512 byte sectors, and the accompanying loss
in performance.

Mark

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:

> In the future, if you have a need to backup an OS for possible later
> use i suggest looking at clonezilla. it will back up to Internal
> drive, usb, nfs, smb, or ftp and it uses dd to make a low level backup
> of your drive and partclone to map your partition layout and will do
> just about every Os i have run into including mac.
>
> An its not Microsoft, its the OEM vendors not shipping media, you can
> order replacement media usually for 10-20 bux to cover S&H ect if you
> grumble enough they will sometimes just send it to you. and even then
> your 50/50 odds at getting restore media as opposed to install media.
>
> On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I didn't care to keep windows. I blew it away!
> >
> > On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Mark Phillips <
> mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Win 7 works just fine as a dual boot with Debian. It also plays very
> well
> >> in VMPlayer with Debian as the host.
> >> Mark
> >>
> >> On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Charles Lewton <clewton44 at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Michael,
> >>>
> >>> If you have enough disk space, dual boot is a good option.  Or does 7
> >>> not like dual boot?
> >>>
> >>> Chuck
> >>>
> >>> On 11/25/11, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> > Before I blow windows away I think I should make a copy of the hard
> >>> > drive
> >>> > in case I need to re-install it. How do I do that  and can I back up
> >>> > the
> >>> > boot sector as well? I'll be backing up to a cd. Would I use dd?
> >>> >
> >>> > --
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