It's not an image per sey, but I have used Casper in Windows XP to clone drives, and they do the clone while Windows is still running. And I have not had any issues getting the cloned drives to boot without having to jump through any hoops. -----Original Message----- From: Speakup [mailto:speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tony Baechler Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 2:57 AM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: Accessible image backup and restore program? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Nope, not on any Windows after ME as I've tried it. Windows refuses to boot from the restored backup. You first have to clear a key in the registry. Besides, that backs up everything, including empty space and doesn't allow for incremental backups. There is still the problem of getting speech to restore the partition later. I've seen this kind of solution proposed here several times, but I guarantee you that it won't work. Even worse, you don't have a way of knowing that Windows didn't boot because no speech comes up. Also, it requires booting into Linux since you can't normally backup a Windows partition in use. On 5/26/2013 11:33 AM, Littlefield, Tyler wrote: > Jason: There is not an accessible windows boot cd as far as I'm aware. > What you could do though is just dd your partitions and pipe t hat > through to bzip2. It's moderately slow, but you could store it on a > nas/passport drive/etc and be set. HTH, -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJRpGNgAAoJEPrAuJWnLe0yekYQALsGUqw08kH4hoRV8xa9CBTt WwK5JMN/6BFzxzo+oLmlrho3Im2mQlQ+XS0LNaW1K5r1Hflrs15/bYsf0OJEscgv 7bcs2u3RZrRw0V1iC2O4fKXXoTp5uAbdiV7a2oPE17dsUdnANiGlzlcZwwKtt4nx OHHJwdhpVRuqMgAKxFFjjVjKHCa+urB7Ulf6KHoNSg/C747XFLMc8Vh5lB9gxKfO cRFS03eFPEYlsqZ6YA7NSHuIKUSWy5MMq+VLhEbKeo9xUA0eJDmMKDEUgmdcwq33 Amj9MX+k8zOwmvIpOzEqtx+lHUaSUcnn0RARhy+DXSFhcgznVjB7MdAJweUaQ+sB jRHZMc3NwygelLu4+DKw4FD+uLQQE07dF8z27vFWwbBsyUQYQkEB1m3cDYpSgrA+ BMAop0eLwZuD6nePK1yA1YOfsgq9+g4zyUyuy16AjOhBK9k26MBjTMKhXCBGSwlA K4bTpBWRJiEyQIKqhiIV5AM21a8WVHoqMYTDAkUW1BzyS5zr1jVEfdVh6QZtNrgs OzkQ/hsFlZmFzl4pL+fJ/Nzcm0WpRDt+AnUANthQ3h41FqevOubStYaLTSkpH0N4 COY3h9ZxxeZdmSEUHwUXtzDcAAvAVL4JdJoeYBCyEIBaKyKgsn9uPZhceVRYBPl3 CoOCCBdRTzq3NWXtlfDb =WF8T -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at linux-speakup.org http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
