[SWLUG] Re: Accessing hard drive partitions

[Paul G. Richardson]

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Rhys,

Can do one of many things, two suggestions would be:

1.
Download a CD only distro like knoppix and run on laptop.
Mount the current XP partition under knoppix using the mount command to
something of your choosing, eg. /mnt/XPDir (need to make directory first
though)
Determine the device name of the recovery partition, eg. /dev/hda1.
Use the dd command to backup the recovery partition as a partition file
to the XP partition, eg. dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/mnt/XPDir/RecPartition
(think that is all the syntax required might need to read the man page
for anything extra)
Partition is saved and can be restored at anytime to an empty 5GB
partition by reversing the paremters on dd, eg.
dd if=/mnt/XPDir/RecPartition of=/dev/hda1

2.
Do the same process but first install your linux distro over XP home on
the rest of the hard drive. Then dd off the 5GB recovery partition and
format the partition and use as a backup drive or /opt etc...

Regards

PGR

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Rhys Sage wrote:
> Thus far I've checked the drive directly under XP Home
> and found it's a 5gb partition with 775 mb of data on
> it. and is FAT 32. There I get my problem...
> 
> I find a folder marked "recovery" but when I attempt
> to open it (under XP) I get:
> 
> "Recovery Partition
> Warning!
>  
> This area of your hard disk
> (or partition) contains files used
> for your system recovery.
>  
> Do not delete or alter these files.
>  
> Any change to this partition could
> prevent any recovery later."
> 
> I can't get any further than that. I really need to
> back it up under XP to CD so that I can put it all
> back later - if needed. Any ideas? I tried googling
> and didn't get anywhere.
> 
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