backup partition

[Lisa Kachold]

Run XP in VirtualBox on Linux.
On 11 Oct 2012 01:27, "Derek Trotter" <expat.arizonan at gmail.com> wrote:

>  I'll look into clonezilla and partimage later today.  Yesterday I was
> using the kde partition manager to resize the ntfs partition my xp install
> lived on.  Just my luck my linux install crashed.  It's kubuntu 12.04.1 for
> amd64.  Naturally when I got the system restarted, the ntfs partition was
> gone.  Thankfully testdisk did recover it, but it still won't boot.  Right
> now I'm moving everything I want to keep off that ntfs partition.
>
> After that's finished I'll nuke that partition, the only one on that hard
> drive.  In the next day or two when I get round to it I'll reinstall xp on
> a smaller partition  that will be just for xp and any programs I run on
> it.  A second partition on that drive will be for anything I want programs
> running on xp to have access to.
>
> Now I have to decide whether to make that other partition ntfs or ext4 and
> install a driver on xp that will allow it to see the ext4 partition.  Which
> would be the better option?
>
> thanks
>
>  On 10/10/2012 03:14 PM, Stephen wrote:
>
> Partimage will do this for you. you can also look up clonezilla as it
> is a bootable iso built around this process and some nice scripts to
> make it easy to do.
>
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Derek Trotter <expat.arizonan at gmail.com> <expat.arizonan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  I'm looking for something on linux that would allow me to create image files
> to back up partitions. I guess something along the lines of Norton Ghost.
> I'm looking for something that's easy to use. Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> Thanks
> Derek
>
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