Tor Olav Kristensen wrote:
> 
> When you are finished, it would be wise to boot from a Knoppix CD
> and connect an external USB HD (sdb) and do this in order to
> backup your whole Win NT disk:
> 
>   sudo su -
>   mkdir /mnt/sdb1
>   mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1
>   dd if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/sdb1/WinNT_backup.img
> 
> Remember to first format sdb1 to a file system type that allows
> for really big files. (E.g. ext3 or reiserfs)
> 
> Now, to restore your NT disk, you only have to do this:
> 
>   sudo su -
>   mkdir /mnt/sdb1
>   mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1
>   dd if=/mnt/sdb1/WinNT_backup.img of=/dev/sda

...or I could use Norton Ghost (which we have a commercial license for). 
Trouble is, by the time I've set everything up, it's loaded with custom 
device drivers and so forth. It would be so much work to get it going on 
another machine that I might as well start from scratch.

But - more to the point - hopefully I will never, ever, have to do this 
again! >_<

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