Best Linux Live CD for Imaging Windows Drive
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@notverypunny Thank you for your reply. I forgot to mention this is in a manufacturing environment and is running Windows 2000 (not connected to the network thankfully). So Veeam is a great solution but will not work here. We just want to grab a image of the drive incase of drive failure in the future.
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@voip_n00b said in Best Linux Live CD for Imaging Windows Drive:
We have a Windows computer that we need to take an image of. Normally I would do it using dd or clonezilla but unfortunately this has to be done by the end user who is remote. Anyone know of a Linux Live CD that has a easy to use imaging program?
Does it have to be Linux based?
You might look at Marcium Reflect.
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@gjacobse said in Best Linux Live CD for Imaging Windows Drive:
You might look at Marcium Reflect.
I thought about that. Sadly the hardward is as old as the OS - so I'm thinking I'll be missing drivers, etc.
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@voip_n00b said in Best Linux Live CD for Imaging Windows Drive:
@gjacobse said in Best Linux Live CD for Imaging Windows Drive:
You might look at Marcium Reflect.
I thought about that. Sadly the hardward is as old as the OS - so I'm thinking I'll be missing drivers, etc.
Uh - Okay. Likely possible.
Can you use a old version of Ghost? Which is a shame since I just destroyed my Ghost Boot Floppy. -
@gjacobse said in Best Linux Live CD for Imaging Windows Drive:
@voip_n00b said in Best Linux Live CD for Imaging Windows Drive:
@gjacobse said in Best Linux Live CD for Imaging Windows Drive:
You might look at Marcium Reflect.
I thought about that. Sadly the hardward is as old as the OS - so I'm thinking I'll be missing drivers, etc.
Uh - Okay. Likely possible.
Can you use a old version of Ghost? Which is a shame since I just destroyed my Ghost Boot Floppy.You could make a custom bootable USB stick with Clonezilla - you'd need to find out all of the device names beforehand so you could make the custom startup script that would do all the work.
In the end, the user
- shutdown down the PC
- plugs in a USB drive
- plugs in the external storage drive for the image
- boots the PC
- stand back while the system does it's job.
- when PC shuts back off - user disconnects all the two previously attached drives
- ships to headquarters.
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@dashrender said in Best Linux Live CD for Imaging Windows Drive:
@gjacobse said in Best Linux Live CD for Imaging Windows Drive:
@voip_n00b said in Best Linux Live CD for Imaging Windows Drive:
@gjacobse said in Best Linux Live CD for Imaging Windows Drive:
You might look at Marcium Reflect.
I thought about that. Sadly the hardward is as old as the OS - so I'm thinking I'll be missing drivers, etc.
Uh - Okay. Likely possible.
Can you use a old version of Ghost? Which is a shame since I just destroyed my Ghost Boot Floppy.You could make a custom bootable USB stick with Clonezilla - you'd need to find out all of the device names beforehand so you could make the custom startup script that would do all the work.
In the end, the user
- shutdown down the PC
- plugs in a USB drive
- plugs in the external storage drive for the image
- boots the PC
- stand back while the system does it's job.
- when PC shuts back off - user disconnects all the two previously attached drives
- ships to headquarters.
I know you can script CZ - so this would be a good option.
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Seriously, just use Veeam Agent to a local USB.
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@jaredbusch On Windows 2000?
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@voip_n00b said in Best Linux Live CD for Imaging Windows Drive:
@jaredbusch On Windows 2000?
I would seriously try it it did work on XP
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If it does not work then yes just deal with clonezilla. It is not too hard to make ELI5 instructions.
