[CS-FSLUG] Managing Partitions/Backup software

[Chad Fluegge]

Nathan,

I thought that I was the only one that this happened to. For some reason, M$
doesn't like residing on the same hd as linux. After two attemped installs,
I finally
installed M$ and Ubuntu successfully, only after I installed them onto two
separate hard drives.

Maybe you could try that...

Unfortunately, I don't have any suggestions concerning your backup software
question.

Chad



On 10/1/06, Nathan T. <celerate at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey list folks
>
> I've done it again, my Windows partition is fried and needs to be
> restored. The story isn't too long so I'll tell you all about it.
>
> Recently I got myself a small NAS box, the little thing came without
> a hard drive, but that wasn't hard to add and now I have a nice SMB
> and FTP file server with access control to boot. I started moving
> files over, then realized I no longer needed the storage partition on
> my Win/Linux desktop and started cleaning that up before deleting the
> partition. I got rid of the partition and everything was looking
> good, then I resized the Windows XP partition to take up the spare
> room using QtParted and that's when the trouble started.
>
> QtParted resized the actual partition, but the formatted space was
> still the same. I couldn't shrink it back to the exact same size
> because that information was lost, and I couldn't use the Mandriva
> partitioner to fix it up either (although had I used that in the
> first place it might have worked).
>
> Now I'm fed up, I don't want to have to reinstall Windows once again,
> it's a real pain in the backside dealing with an operating system
> that needs at least a dozen drivers, nearly a hundred different
> applications, at least a dozen reboots, and hundreds of patches every
> time it's installed clean. I can't ditch Windows right now because I
> still like playing my games, and I need it to run some of my
> hardware, so I'd like to find a backup solution that is no longer
> dependent on the partition size remaining the same.
>
> I want some suggestions on backup solutions that do not require me to
> be running Windows to restore the backup, and that will not require
> the partition size to be the same. Particularly though I would like
> something I can use on more than one machine, and is easy to use. At
> this point I don't mind going with a commercial package, in fact
> earlier I was looking at Partition Magic, which tragically is now
> owned by Norton now.
>
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