Hello

I know this topic has been covered earlier and I have tried the suggestions, but with no luck.

I use a small Win 2000 network with 30 machines and 4 servers. When a machine goes down it takes ages to get it running again.

What I want to do is to make a disk image of eack working machine onto a external USB drive.
I want to boot with Linux, delete the install on the machine and copy back the stored image.
Is this possble? I can make the disk image. This does take a long time, with many 'stalled' messages.
Perhaps it is because Linux only uses USB1? The hard drive and DVD rom are using DMA.
3 GB takes over 4 hours!


I am using Knoppix Boot CD version 3.6. I can boot fine into a Win 2000 machine and browse the hard drive as well as see a external USB drive.
I can make the USB writable, but not the HDA1 NTFS one.

I can mount the drive by right click-mount, but making the disk writable using action and read write fails, with this message

" The remount command failed. Maybe there is another process accessing the file system"

I have tried the NTFS mount command to no avail.
I have tried searching for the NTFS drivers on the hard disk. I know they are there. File search finds 4 of them. I placed copies on the desktop, but Linux cannot find them or use them



My next question is about the Network and using Linux to access it.
I can see the network using Samba. I can get into two of the servers using our normal Admin and password.
I cannot get into the other two servers. What would the reason be for this?

I can see 'Knoppix' from the main server and browse, having setup the knoppix account. I can copy from Knoppix,
but cannot write to it, because I cannot make HDA1 writable.
This would be another way of storing the machine images.

The problem is NTFS;is there a effective and efficient way to achieve what I am trying?


Mike Engles