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From: Will on 1 Jul 2008 22:33
Which imaging utilities can read either a DOS or NTFS partition and copy the
image to a file on an NTFS file system? The point is I want to have a
library of images as large files under NTFS, rather than having to index a
large number of physical drives, each of which would have one or more
partitions.

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Will


From: Rod Speed on 1 Jul 2008 23:13
Will <westes-usc(a)noemail.nospam> wrote

> Which imaging utilities can read either a DOS or NTFS partition and copy the image to a file on an NTFS file system?

If you really meant write instead of the word copy, then any of
the major imagers will do that fine. I prefer Acronis True Image.

> The point is I want to have a library of images as large files under NTFS, rather than having to index a large number
> of physical drives, each of which would have one or more partitions.

Not clear what the first part of that means.


From: Will on 2 Jul 2008 00:40
"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Will <westes-usc(a)noemail.nospam> wrote
>
>> Which imaging utilities can read either a DOS or NTFS partition and copy
>> the image to a file on an NTFS file system?
>
> If you really meant write instead of the word copy, then any of
> the major imagers will do that fine. I prefer Acronis True Image.

I already tried TrueImage 9.01 from their boot CD. It makes the backup
image of the partition, but when you go to "restore" I don't find any option
to restore to any arbitrary location on the hard drive. Instead it just
wants to overwrite the original partition or entire drive.

--
Will


From: Rod Speed on 2 Jul 2008 02:24
Will <westes-usc(a)noemail.nospam> wrote
> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa(a)gmail.com> wrote
>> Will <westes-usc(a)noemail.nospam> wrote

>>> Which imaging utilities can read either a DOS or NTFS partition and copy the image to a file on an NTFS file system?

>> If you really meant write instead of the word copy, then any of
>> the major imagers will do that fine. I prefer Acronis True Image.

> I already tried TrueImage 9.01 from their boot CD. It makes the
> backup image of the partition, but when you go to "restore" I don't
> find any option to restore to any arbitrary location on the hard drive.

Corse you can. That has to be restoring a partition tho, not the entire physical drive, obviously.

> Instead it just wants to overwrite the original partition or entire drive.

Thats just plain wrong. You can restore a partition to anywhere you like on a
particular physical drive, including over any of the existing partitions on that drive.


From: Will on 2 Jul 2008 02:54
"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Will <westes-usc(a)noemail.nospam> wrote
>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa(a)gmail.com> wrote
>>> Will <westes-usc(a)noemail.nospam> wrote
>
>>>> Which imaging utilities can read either a DOS or NTFS partition and
>>>> copy the image to a file on an NTFS file system?
>
>>> If you really meant write instead of the word copy, then any of
>>> the major imagers will do that fine. I prefer Acronis True Image.
>
>> I already tried TrueImage 9.01 from their boot CD. It makes the
>> backup image of the partition, but when you go to "restore" I don't
>> find any option to restore to any arbitrary location on the hard drive.
>
> Corse you can. That has to be restoring a partition tho, not the entire
> physical drive, obviously.
>
>> Instead it just wants to overwrite the original partition or entire
>> drive.
>
> Thats just plain wrong. You can restore a partition to anywhere you like
> on a
> particular physical drive, including over any of the existing partitions
> on that drive.

Are you using TrueImage from Windows desktop, or are you using the boot CD
you can create from TrueImage?

And probably you are using version 10?

The limitation I am seeing may be just for the boot CD, and it may also be
for version 9.

--
Will


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