On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 16:36 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
I have 2 hard drives and the XP drive is getting flakey, altho it booted today. Is there any way to copy the _complete_ xp drive, registry, files, and all to the Linux drive, and then, having replaced the flakey drive, copy all of that back, and have a bootable, usable xp system? If so, please give me detailed directions. I'm an RF guy, not a computer maven.
Three is an utility called Partition Image that may well work for you. I've used it a few times on VFAT and FAT32 drives but not on NTFS drives. It's an arcane interface, but it does the job. It will create an (compressed - optional) image of the used sections of the drive and you can recreate the drive from the image(s).
BTW, the flakey drive contains the dual-boot system, and I could not get into that last night. Can I get into the Linux drive directly somehow, from a floppy or a CD or something?
You can use your install CD\DVD and choose at one point to boot the installed system. HTH Mike