Re: General Linux Laptoppin'

[Ray Holtz <ray@rayholtz.com>]

I can see all that fancy backing up would be necessary if he was doing 
this to an already production laptop.  But he is going to do this to a 
new laptop, so all the backing up is probably overboard.  Just blow it 
away and reinstall Windows.  Even better to install it with a plain 
windows XP cd if he has one, instead of the windows CD that comes with 
the laptop and has all this other crap they like to install foryou.


  Robert Citek wrote:
> 
> On Monday, Jan 31, 2005, at 15:51 US/Central, fiaid@quasi-sane.com wrote:
> 
>>> For an example of how to backup an entire Windows drive using Knoppix:
>>>
>>>    http://www.cwelug.org/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi?Backup-Restore_Windows
>>>
>>> The examples work for both a NIC and USB2/FireWire.
>>
>>
>> That's a little overboard, I was just thinking to make sure you burn all
>> your porn onto a DVD before you nuke it.  But yeah, that would work too.
> 
> 
> I dunno about overboard.  I did the above on a new WinXP-home machine 
> with a 40 GB drive.  Imaging and gzip'ing resulted in a 1.4 GB file.  A 
> bit big for a CD, but small enough for a DVD.  And its a nice safety net 
> which gives you a bit more piece of mind when you experiment with those 
> repartitioning programs.
> 
> Regards,
> - Robert
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