Category: Geeks r Us
Usually I slave the drive and use acronis, but what if your working on a laptop where the harddrive isn't a user replaceable part so your not *meant* to remove it?
I'm thinking that something like vinux could be modified providing that someone knows of an accessible program that will clone ntfs and perhaps even hfs.
Any thoughts what so ever are welcome.
Chears.
Hi,
Could you not simply install acronis on the drive to be cloned and then uninstall it once the clone is complete?
In newer versions of acronis, from 9 upwards, a clone disk feature is available.
If you're using a laptop can you not connect the hard drive which you will make the clone on via USB?
as far as I know, acronis uses volume shadow copy where you dont have to reboot and be in another environment to do the cloning.
I've always restored my images that way, so for example if I were testing an os like windows 7 and decided I'd go back to xp, I'd install acronis and tell it to restore the image. so It will restart automaticly.
I do know now that doing something like that can be done virtually but I'd rather install it then use it virtually.
Another suggestion is to build a bart PE disc and use NVDA along with partition magic to copy the partition on to the hard drive to be cloned?
I know all my suggestions delt with windows in some way or another, as I'm not quite there with linux yet.
*smile*
Wait, Acronis True Image is accessible with JAWS, and/or another screenreader? i have both Acronis, and ghost, which oneis better?