[win2kforum] Re: Disk Images

  • From: John Madden <weez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: win2kforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 12:00:56 -0500

On Thursday 26 April 2001 11:57, you wrote:
> Any free tool out there to create disk images like Ghost?

Hey, I get to contribute! :)  

If you've got a linux boot disk handy, pop it in and go

dd if=/dev/hda of=image_file  # writes image
dd if=imagefile of=/dev/hda    # writes image to disk

to write it.  If you want compression with that, do this instead:

dd if=/dev/hda | gzip > image_file.gz  # writes image with compression
dd if=/dev/hda | gzip -d > /dev/hda   # decompresses image to disk

(Obviously, the image_file shouldn't be on the same device that you're 
creating the image from. :))  We used to do this all the time (imaging 
windows labs and such) across the network, and it worked quite well.  I 
don't know of an equivalent using just dos/windows tools though. :(

John




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