Sorry, I forgot to mention that after hooking the hard drive to the system, you can use Norton ghost. I prefer Image for Windows. It is by far better than ghost. This way, you are not asked to restart the computer. The drive you want to throw the image on is not controlled by Windows. You are in full control of it. Also, Image for Windows would image any partition to a TBI file without asking to restart Windows. It saves the partition as an image and can even validate it bite per bite if you want to get sensitive about your data. I only do that with the server. Using the TBI viewer, you can view the whole image in Windows explorer and extract any files or folders that you want. Image for Windows works on Linux too if I am not wrong. It has a bootable disk for DOS and Linux. Check on the manufacturer's site. It is one of the best pieces of software that I bought. -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of JP Jamous Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 6:48 PM To: 'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.' Subject: RE: Parted Not Found Trev, Get yourself both an IDE and SATA enclosures. You just need the box. Plug the hard drive in and through USB plug it as an external drive to your laptop and you are good to go. If it is a desktop, you can use an IDE or a SATA cable. Just make sure with the IDE you move the jumper to slave the hard drive. On my LAN server, I have 2 internal hard drives. One has a primary partition that runs the OS and all of my server applications. As to the other, I only made it an extended partition and generated 4 logical partitions. So jumpers here do not matter at all. The BIOS looks for the hard drive with the primary partition where the MBR is. It ignores the rest. I don't create primary partitions unless they are used for an OS. I always create extended partition and slice it to as many logicals as I want. However, with Linux now, I am even seeing much more possibilities that require less hardware work. I just need to get to learn the system well as I know Windows. I would also recommend NLite if you want to make a Windows installation CD without touching the keyboard through the installation. I used to listen to the hard drive and memorize the screens. With NLite, I boot the computer and run the business or program while Windows installs on its own. By the time it is done, I have Windows, necessary drivers, and domain set up. I just install JAWS and continue working. I have a business here. I cannot waste precious time anymore listening to the hard drive cranking, assume, and respond to all of the questions that Windows ask. I warn you though. NLite is a powerful software. You will damage a few CDs or DVDs before you get the hang of it. Google it and check it out. -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of trev.saunders at gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 6:09 PM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.; Gregory Nowak Subject: Re: Parted Not Found Hi, this brings up a question I meant to ask, how do you flash the disk? the one time I needed DD (copy arbitrary data between places) and had easiest access to windows, I found nothing even close to DD for windows, and ended up just finding a linux box. Trev > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 05:08:02PM -0400, JP Jamous wrote: > > I can afford losing the partition. I have an image of it. Plus this > > computer has no screen nor keyboard. It is my testing machine. > > Interesting. How are you interacting with xp, over rdp, or some other > way? As for the rest of your questions, I think Trevor did a good job > answering them, and I have nothing to add. > > Greg > > > - -- > web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: > http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN > PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkvYr8MACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyAV7gCdHJmwQ7P0JPar0p8U9oUpSpkS > s9YAnjnj99WMx1LPv9KTVYxKN7KhiBou > =3byX > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
