I'll look into clonezilla and partimage later today. Yesterday I was using the kde partition manager to resize the ntfs partition my xp install lived on. Just my luck my linux install crashed. It's kubuntu 12.04.1 for amd64. Naturally when I got the system restarted, the ntfs partition was gone. Thankfully testdisk did recover it, but it still won't boot. Right now I'm moving everything I want to keep off that ntfs partition.

After that's finished I'll nuke that partition, the only one on that hard drive. In the next day or two when I get round to it I'll reinstall xp on a smaller partition that will be just for xp and any programs I run on it. A second partition on that drive will be for anything I want programs running on xp to have access to.

Now I have to decide whether to make that other partition ntfs or ext4 and install a driver on xp that will allow it to see the ext4 partition. Which would be the better option?

thanks

On 10/10/2012 03:14 PM, Stephen wrote:

Partimage will do this for you. you can also look up clonezilla as it
is a bootable iso built around this process and some nice scripts to
make it easy to do.

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Derek Trotter <expat.arizonan@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm looking for something on linux that would allow me to create image files
to back up partitions. I guess something along the lines of Norton Ghost.
I'm looking for something that's easy to use. Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks
Derek

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