Either use something like Norton Ghost, which would obviously cost, or, like I think was mentioned before, boot liveCD and dd the partition to external media of some form, compressing it after (or during if you're feeling lucky)
<br>dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/mnt/someshare/backup.img<br><a href="http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/ddcommand.htm">http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/ddcommand.htm</a> that link looks helpful :)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 27, 2007 3:59 PM, Digit (SG) <
<a href="mailto:digit.siljrath@googlemail.com">digit.siljrath@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
mind explaining that for the noobs? it sounds like it should be point n click simple, but i cant think where or how to do this in any system.<br><br><div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><span class="gmail_quote">On 26/11/2007,
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Daniel Lamb</b> <<a href="mailto:daniel.lamb@dlcomputing.co.uk" target="_blank">daniel.lamb@dlcomputing.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Take an image then so you can restore it
later.</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Same with windows.</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Regards,</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Daniel</span></font></p>
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<a href="mailto:dundee-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk" target="_blank">dundee-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:dundee-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk" target="_blank">
dundee-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>] <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">On Behalf Of </span></b><3 <br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> 26 November 2007 11:45<span><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Tayside Linux User Group<br></span><span>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [dundee] De Linuxing my
laptop</span></span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hai guys,<br>
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I thought i'd share with you my woes! my (relativley) new laptop has a hardware
problem (covered by warranty - so they can deal with it) and I have to send it
away! So not only do i have to be without a laptop for a while, I also have to
uninstall any trace of its linux minty-ness, because installing an operating
system is a <u>'Void of Warranty'</u> !!<br>
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Sucks to be me!!<br>
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-jen</span></font></p></div></div>
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