On Jul 14, 7:53 pm, Crackles McFarly <Ireland... RemoveThis @ireland.sux> wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:40:07 -0700, "Timothy Daniels"
> <TDani... RemoveThis @NoSpamDot.com> sayd the following:
>
> >A simpler procedure would be to get a copy of Partition
> > Magic, and just re-size the existing partitions, leaving the
> > existing OS where it is but downsizing its partition. But
> > don't downsize too far.... 
>
> i have p-magic and did use it to make the main c partition very large,
> then made the z-drive partition exactly 3x the size of the data stored
> on drive c's main partition. i was wondering if i could place an image
> file? of the main-c drive onto drive z' partition and then burn this
> image to several dvd's?
>
> if so, how do you restore these dvd's in a after a crash?
>
> since the image is not on a lone dvd but spanned over several dvd's??
>
> this is making no sense to me which is so sad because i've only been
> using a computer since the c-64 days. i either got lazy or really
> stupid lately..
oh, the c-64.. about the first comp i saw too ! or not.. school had a
BBC. Friend had a C-64, and another had an Amiga 1200..
Looks like you've stopped experimenting.. boredom? not enough
computers to play with? i.e. only ones with serious work on there that
you don't want to take risks with?
Partition magic can't to my knowledge make images. (I have PM v
.
A program like Norton Ghost makes images. It has an option to, instead
of make an image file , to split an image file into being of a certain
size. It'd name them like z_drive1 z_drive2 or something.. But some
convention that Norton Ghost is familiar with.
I then burnt them onto CDs.
So, this was to restore, say, partition W
Then to restore, I copied each one from its CD, onto a partition e.g.
V. And I told Norton Ghost to restore from those files, to Partition
W. Pointing Norton Ghost to the first one z_drive1 , or maybe even
any of those files.. z_drive1, or z_drive2. all were in the same
directory btw.. Norton Ghost realised they formed one, and restored.
There was a hitch though, that really stressed me out.. I can't quite
remember it or the solution.. But it was like I had 6 CDs, and each
one had a different image on it. One had c_drive1, another c_drive2
e.t.c.
After putting CD1 in there and copying c_drive1 into the directory, I
put CD2 in there and windows made it look like c_drive1 was on there.
I put it in another machine and it said c_drive2. Then maybe it
worked in the 'original' machine. It was very strange. It must've
been a clash between windows, and the fact that the file on each cd
was so unusual.. Maybe windows was caching. But refresh didn't help.
I haven't done a large restore from many CDs since!!!! I was using NG
v8. Many people prefer Acronis TrueImage. I haven't had much trouble
doing a restore from another partition or another hard drive.
Another solution I use and like. Is purely using PM.
Instead of doing an image. I have a little OS partition that I want
to clone. So I just use PM to copy the partition. Then I hide the
partition. If I need it it's there. (i may need to amend the boot.ini
on the visible partition 'cos it thinks there's a windows there. But
that's just tidying up)
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