[ale] Window Chopping

[Mills, John M.]

Brian -

Thanks. If I had the materials I would probably go with Ghost, but this
looks like a good approach to say the least.  I did something similar with
knoppix and cpio to capture a moderate amount of data (c. 1GBy) from a
laptop with a corrupted Win32 setup (I know: "How can you tell?"). In that
case I expanded the files at the receiving end and wrote them onto
Win-readable CDs. Here I have about 3 Gby, so I'll need to think about my
target. Naturally burning to a DVD would be ideal. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian MacLeod [mailto:nym.bnm at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 1:44 PM

BML> Please took a nice gander at this:
BML> http://sentinelsecurity.net/whitepapers/diskcloning.pdf

BML> The second to last page is in dead tree format on my desk, as it is a
BML> nice quick reference.  Please note, though, that if you do not tune
BML> the block size (basically, do it as he wrote it), it may take a while
BML> to store this image.  But it is reliable.  We use this method with
BML> difficult laptops/tablets and KNOPPIX cds (if we can get the tablets
BML> to boot from external CD)

BML> bnm


On 5/13/05, Mills, John M. <Mills.J at ems-t.com> wrote:
> My Questions: I may wish to reinstall WinXPHome some day. What is the best
> way to capture the as-yet unused installation for another system or later
> installation? Should I be able to repartition my HDD back to WinXP if I
need
> to (presumably with the recovery CDs)? How about the MBR?