Looking to image an entire Windows machine using Knoppix

[rbasting]

My wife has had incredible problems with an HP machine running XP Home edition. They shipped me a new hard drive and told me I needed to install it and image it myself. Instead of reimaging the machine with their rebuild CD, I wanted to use Knoppix to image the entire hard drive to an attached USB external drive, then image it back to the new hard drive.

Are there any tools that run on Knoppix that will do this?

Thanks.

[fingers99]

Never tried it, but you could look at Partition Image. Not sure that it handles ntfs, though.

Alternatively, format the new drive, format the external drive vfat (fat32), copy the files over and copy them from the external drive to the new one.

Yet again, dd should create an identical copy.

Do read the man pages carefully!

[pau1knopp]

dd is your friend
netcat is your allie

[atrick-pay]

Hope all goes well but I would use http://terabyteunlimited.com/bootitng.html
boot live off the cd image to USB and back to the new drive.
The free trial will do it just fine, but the software is more then worth the small fee

[rwcitek]

Are there any tools that run on Knoppix that will do this?

As mentioned, dd and partimage will work for you. For more detailed instructions see:

http://www.cwelug.org/cgi-bin/wiki.c...estore_Windows

As you can see from the text, I've used this method since v3.2 of Knoppix. Hmmm, maybe I should update the information for v3.8 and later versions of Knoppix.

Be sure to let us know how it goes.

Regards,
- Robert
http://www.cwelug.org/

[jombeewoof]

I've never done it with linux but the only succesful imaging of XP I've ever done was with a program called Casper XP
you can get a free trial version of it that works fine but won't resize partitions (partition magic anyone)
it has always worked for me and I've never lost a byte