Re: Looking for bootable cross-platform backup CD/DVD

[Kevin Thomas <axel2078@gmail.com>]

I’ve used a program called Redo Backup to clone hard drives in the past and it worked well, but that was a few years ago and I don’t know if it is still under development anymore. 

Kevin

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> On Nov 28, 2018, at 00:12, dsavage@peaknet.net wrote:
> 
> I'm in real need of a backup utility ISO image that will allow me to boot
> a new ThinkPad P72 mobile workstation laptop from a CD/DVD and:
> 
> (1) Access a pre-installed Windows 10 Professional image managed by an
> Intel RST controller configured to make two PCIe M.2 SSDs into a RAID1
> mirror.
> 
> (2) Do a forensic dd-style exact transfer of about 1.8 TB and write it all
> to a USB HDD.
> 
> (3) P2V that image and create a virtual machine under a Fedora 29 host.
> 
> The riskiest part of this process comes after step 2, when I go into the
> BIOS and change the mode of the Intel raid controller from RST to AHCI,
> and then break the RAID1 mirror. Either of these actions could completely
> destroy the pre-installed Windows image, so it's absolutely essential that
> step 2 generates a perfect bit-by-bit forensic copy of the installed
> Windows OS partitions (there are actually three).
> 
> The latest Clonezilla creates a bootable DVD, but it cannot find and read
> the RAID1 mirror managed by the Intel RST chip. The C4L ISO downloaded
> from sourceforge may make a bootable CD, but the same image burned to a
> DVD+R doesn't boot.
> 
> Everywhere I turn I find something critical that fails. Does anyone have
> any suggestions as alternatives to Clonezilla or C4L?
> 
> --Doc
> Robert G. (Doc) Savage
> Fairview Heights, IL
> 
> "Perfection is the enemy of good enough."
>          -- Admiral of the Fleet Sergei G. Gorshkov
> 
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