john wrote:
> Hi all
>
> For what he wants to do I would use acronis. There are free copies of this
> superb program around.
>
> 1) In windows defrag the hard disk.
> 2) Install acronis
> 3) create iso of acronis
> 4) back up hard disk Use the acronis program to check that the partition was
> backed up ok.
> 5) create partition of 14GB
> 6) install backup using acronis to this new disk
> 7) make this bootable then run windows to check it runs ok
> 8) VMware has tools to convert this to VMware system
> 9) Virtual disk can convert this to virtual disk system
>
> John Eayrs
>
John,
Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm already running Linux on the machine
and would like to achieve this without having to reboot to windows (or
at all) if possible. I also don't want to repartition the drive at the
moment so I'm looking for some way to create a 14gig "drive" that I can
create a DD image of without having to repartition. I wonder if it is
possible to create a virtual drive some how that I could copy the data onto?
