On 28 Jun 2020 at 10:30, DC wrote: > > Partition Magic is still around? I remember the Dos versions, but > thought they had closed shop years ago. > I believe it's as dead as ever - I mean since 2009, if Wikipedia is to be believed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PartitionMagic Same thing with the DOS-based binaries of Ghost.
I meant to say that if you have an archived version, including a license key or whatever the deal was, it should work even today on Win98 and XP disks. You only need to run it in a VM guest, with your image attached. > There's a Partition Master, but it only opens partitions on your > hard drive. As far as I can see, it won't open BxImage image files, > that act as repositories for Windows partitions. > Partition Master looks nice. I have quite some respect for EaseUS for their data recovery software. If the Partition Master is half as good and free, that's your tool I guess. But again, it will only work inside the image, it won't change the image file size - and you'd need to run the Partition Master in a VM or present the whole disk to Windows via some loopback driver (or via iSCSI from some OS that can work as an iSCSI target over raw images - such as Linux). Windows Server 2016 apparently can work as an iSCSI target, not sure if it can serve raw images though. Probably not. https://www.informaticar.net/how-to-setup-windows-server-2016-as-iscsi -target/ > > There might be an alternative, though, in Wine > https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/android/ > > It doesn't host OSs, from what I can see. But it seems to host > individual Windows applications, specifically in android. That > would be perfect, if true. > Wine tends to be compatible with Windows apps "to a degree". Try it and see for yourself :-) Wine is traditionally geared for gaming and basic office apps. E.g., ActiveX is broadly compatible, but last time I checked, any non-trivial system crypto/auth support was missing. Not much use for business apps (native/fat ERP clients etc). Frank
