Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Dude, I'm getting a Dell! > > It's gonna come with Vista, and I have to use it that way for work. > But I want to > put a Linux partition on there. So I need to repartition. > > Having learned to be cautious, I'm wondering if there is a good open-source > way > to back up about 300GB of NTFS such that I can restore fairly smoothly. It > has > to be fairly fast, so file-by-file copies are probably going to suck. > I'll have 100MB > ethernet to a big-enough drive. > > Then, I'm wondering about partitioning tools. I can use > PartitionMagic 7.0. I've heard > of gparted, but not used it. Any advice? > > TIA > > ++ kevin > > >
If I recall correctly they no longer actually ship a windoze CD/DVD to install/restore from, don't forget to make your copies just in case you make a mistake and have to reinstall windoze. I would hate for you to have to go buy a copy of something you already had to pay for. Good luck. Dale :-) :-)
