Author: James Ashburner Date: To: johnrhunt, Hampshire LUG Discussion List CC: Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Vista, virtualbox and DD..
John Hunt wrote:
> The problem is that the hard disk is 500GB, that's a pretty big image
> and I just don't have any drives near big enough to store that on. What
> I'd like to do is just get the good bits from the hard disk into a
> workable image. Perhaps DDing the MBR, mounting the NTFS partition and
> putting it all together somehow?
We use Norton Ghost to do this at work, the images are compressed so a
40GB HDD with XP, Office 2003 and the host of other software we put on
it becomes a 2GB image. You'll probably be able to create an image on a
dual layer DVD.
