[sclug] Ghost HDD

[Steve]

Basically the easiest way is to boot into a live cd and do a
dd if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/usbdrive/hd.img .
This will take a copy of the hard drive and copy to external disk.

On 26/07/11 09:58, Matt Cox wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I have a Pre-installed Windows 7 Home Premium laptop for which I am planning to free up some of the disk to make a partition for a Mint install.
> 
> Since I don't have the install media I'd like to ghost the resized win 7 partition in case of mishaps. It would also have the advantage of keeping all my installed software in one disk image.
> 
> Has anyone got any experience doing this and are there any recommended ghost utilities?
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Matt.