Re: USB Voodoo?

jim wrote:
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"jim" <jim@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks to another poster I tried Terabyte's Win Image software
(http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/products.htm).

You have to make a bootable CD and boot into DOS to use it to image
your
USB drives. I'm not really sure why this isn't possiblke directly from
Windows.

And, it is really slow. It took almost 20 minutes to image a USB 2.0
8GB
drive with FAT32, Ext2 and Linux swap partitions. It took 58 minute to
restore it.

Although it does require rebooting into DOs and it is slow, it is
better
than losing your data.

Did you ever try booting to an Acronis CD? The CD is Linux-based.

Yes. I booted the Acronis True Image Home 11 recovery cd (full version)
and it cannot see the Linux partitions (Ext2 and Linux Swap) -- or at
least they didn't show in the gui.

That's really disappointing. I really like Acronis. I recommend it all
the time to my Windows friends and clients.

jim

I kept searching and found another software product that handles backing
up
my USB Linux drives, and has no problems with the Linux partition formats.

The good thing about this new software (new to me anyway) is that is does
it's backup and restore from within windows. It runs just like any other
Windows software - no booting to a DOS or Linux based CD to backup my USB
drives.

The great thing is the speed! Whereas Win Image took almost 20 minutes
from
a DOS bootable CD to make an image All Image 1.3.1 made an uncompressed
image in 6 minutes 40 seconds. And, where Win Image took 58 monutes to
restore the image to my USB drive, All Image 1.3.1 took exactly 20
minutes.

Check out the 14 day trial version at
http://www.towodo.com/products/allimage/. And, it's a reasonably priced
$25
to purchase.

Just thought you may like to know....

jim

Well, that beats BING, for sure. Besides which, in case you didn't know,
BING operates down at the DOS level, too. (BING = BootItNG) Just
curious - did you ever consider trying it out?


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