My question is:
Can you take an image of a partition (not the whole disk) and restore that partition onto a USB2.0 based 2.5 inch IDE drive effectively creating a complete copy of your OS drive? Recomended imaging software? any pitfalls?
My thinking is:
Take a ghost image of /dev/hda1, restore it to /dev/sda1. This should give me a bootable partition on the USB drive (bios supports usb-drive booting).
My reasoning is:
I want to have my existing installation joined to my school's domain. I do not have domain admin access, so i can not re-join it to the domain if it is removed. If, however, i imaged the OS and made a duplicate, i could put the duplicate on my home domain.
Application is:
I want to be able to have a copy of my OS and Program files on a USB drive with out re-installing and re-activating everything. I realize this will not boot on any other hardware with out activation issues, but i believe i should be able to move to another hard drive (only the hard drive serial number would change, not the other XP activation check numbers).
Hardware:
Compaq nc8230
- 40 gig hard drive
- 30 gig NTFS (system, bootable)
- 8 gig fat32 (linux / , bootable, active partition, grub)
grub
(hd0,0), chainloader +1 <-- load windows XP
(hd0,1), ubuntu kernel
- 2 gig swapFS
- USB2.0 to IDE adapter
- 60 gig IDE drive
- currently 30 gig fat32 data partition on it, but backed up and trashable.
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