On 09-11-23 12:35:00, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: ... > I know this is a Fedora site and I am a diehard Fedora user, > but I also have a multiboot system... apologies to the purists. > > Is it possible to backup and restore Xp/Vista to a different > drive/partition in the case of imminent drive failure? How is this > to be properly done? > > I tried to use rsync from the original to a different partition > but this does not seem to work. > > Help please? There are various -ghost apps, but I've just used dd to a new drive, copying the entire drive to a drive as large or larger. If it is larger, I just extend the last partition to the rest of the drive. IIRC, I usually haven't had to do anything else, but it might be necessary to do a "Repair Install", at least with XP (I haven't used anything more recent). A Repair Install is tedious but hasn't done any harm when I've used it. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
