eppoh Posted January 16, 2003 Report Share Posted January 16, 2003 Has anyone had any luck copying a drive with dual boot Win98 and Mdk9 using Acronis Partition expert or Migrate easy? Both claim to handle any Linux partition, but neither has worked for me. I need to both my PC's upgraded with new drives as simply as possible sithout reinstalling anything Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Counterspy Posted January 16, 2003 Report Share Posted January 16, 2003 I do not about Acronis, but I do know that Norton Ghost or Powerquest DriveImage will do what you want. They are both Windows programs and obviously you need to by them. They are installed to floppies to do their job so you can get them from a friend or from the man in the brown fedora and tan raincoat... Counterspy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eppoh Posted January 17, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2003 I didn't think Powerquest could handle linux partitions such as ext3 or reiser. Have you had experience with them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Counterspy Posted January 17, 2003 Report Share Posted January 17, 2003 I do not believe that the Powerquest product will deal with journalled file sytems. Check with their web site. PM8 says it handles ext3 but I am a bit skeptical without a bacckup. Counterspy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted January 17, 2003 Report Share Posted January 17, 2003 I've used Acronis with no problems on ext3. What problems are you having? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted January 17, 2003 Report Share Posted January 17, 2003 if you want good linux support, try partimage at www.partimage.org, they have a downloadable bootable iso image for a cd. Handles windows as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MottS Posted January 17, 2003 Report Share Posted January 17, 2003 I personnaly use Partimage (the bootable cd) and this is wonderfull. Can handle lot more Linux filesystem than its win equivalent... MOttS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illogic-al Posted January 21, 2003 Report Share Posted January 21, 2003 if you want good linux support, try partimage at www.partimage.org, they have a downloadable bootable iso image for a cd. Handles windows as well. you forgot that its fast. thuper fast! when reinstalling a backup Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted January 23, 2003 Report Share Posted January 23, 2003 I have a dumb question. I don't have a burner on my Linux box, but there is one on my Win98SE box networked to it. Is it possible to write to the CD burner downstairs as long as I give myself write privileges to that share? If so, can I use partimage to backup partitions from my Linux box (no burner) to the Windows burner downstairs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest GorGor Posted March 11, 2003 Report Share Posted March 11, 2003 Steve can't help you on the network cos I don't have one. HOWEVER, I use partimage with no cdburner. You have to trust your hd won't fail. I have a partition set up called (say) /images This is always left unformatted if I install a new Mdk version. roughly 1 G of data is compressed to 340 Mb. If you are interested I could waffle on more. heh heh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted March 11, 2003 Report Share Posted March 11, 2003 Sometimes partimage won't work because the destination is smaller. In that case, a copy -pax does the job.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ndeb Posted March 12, 2003 Report Share Posted March 12, 2003 copy -paxU mean cp -pax? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted March 12, 2003 Report Share Posted March 12, 2003 Ehm, maybe I'm missing something, but I have managed to copy win98se to a second hd just by copying all files, under win98. You should just omit the swap file, on the c: dir. That said, what's against just creating partitions on the new drive and copying everything over there whilst under mdk9.0? Make sure you put win on the first, let's say hdb1 (must be primary), and linux any way you want, but modify the /etc/fstab to point to the right partitions. If you have the same partition layout (hd numbering), but just larger partitions for /home for instance, you won't even have to change /etc/fstab, just make sure you have a bootfloppy, copy the partition info and swap the drives. Then you have to reinstall (or install, since it was never there) lilo; boot with bootflop and run lilo. Oh btw, you may want to check the correct options when you copy the files from one partition to another (cp -pax has been mentioned). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Cyclops Posted March 16, 2003 Report Share Posted March 16, 2003 Hello, eppoh - I've used Acronis TrueImage to image and restore hundreds of Linux ext3 partitions and have never had a failure on the imaging, or restoration process. However, I've never tried Acronis Partition Expert. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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