I remember Power Quest's Drive Image and Partition Manager, before Norton bought them. Favorite apps for a long time.donald wrote: It was "power quest's" drive image.Having this program at hand,
In the Windows world I use Drive Image XML. And run restores with it via BartPE.
Unfortunately Porteus doesn't have clonezilla. Not even in USM.In the Linux world we have e.g. clonezilla for this task
Wow!! Mine usually takes longer but the hdd is much larger.about speed / time:
Imaging a 40 GB disk (in a 14 years old box) was done in less than 7 min.
An interesting approach. And while you say it won't work this way it will if the Porteus bootloader step is replaced with a grub4dos bootloader step. XP and Porteus can exist, and boot, on the same partition. Porteus just needs a save.dat file for persistence.tome wrote:Most important - this method won't work:
Install XP -> install Porteus bootloader on the same partition -> possibility to boot XP.
An interesting posting tome.You can see at http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=4457