New Lenovo Netbook

[John Hupp]

Sadly, Clonezilla does not yet support burning directly to (or restoring 
from) multiple DVD's. You seem to be well aware of that in the backup 
part of your plan.  As I recall, to restore you would have to copy all 
those images from the DVD's to a single collection on a hard drive, 
network share or flash drive, then aim Clonezilla at that collection 
during the restore.

On 10/4/2014 10:10 AM, "J. Van Brimmer" wrote:
>
> Yeah,  I figured as much. I am looking into using clonezilla to create 
> compressed images, then burning those to DVDs.
>
> I really appreciate everyone who has responded. I have read all of 
> your replies, and am cosidering all of your inputs.
>
> At this point I have, like I said before,  shrunk C down to 226Gb, but 
> I think it'll go down a lot more. I would rather let W*dows shrink 
> itself rather than just smacking it down with Gparted. But, all 
> options are still open.
>
> Well, here goes ...
>
> On Oct 4, 2014 6:50 AM, "John Hupp" <lubuntu at prpcompany.com 
> <mailto:lubuntu at prpcompany.com>> wrote:
>
>     I regard the Windows imaging tool as broken for the purpose of
>     burning to DVD.  I think it worked in early versions of Windows 7,
>     but then they broke it in a later version.  By the time they
>     included the Win 7 tool in Win 8 (!!), DVD support was clearly
>     broken, or I forget, not even presented as an option.
>
>     But it should work fine if you save the image to a hard drive, a
>     network share, or a *large* USB flash drive.
>
>     Or use something other than the native Windows tool if you want to
>     burn to DVD's.
>
>     On 10/4/2014 12:24 AM, "J. Van Brimmer" wrote:
>>     That's what I intend to do once I get the DVDs created. I was
>>     having trouble with the Windows backup tool writing to my
>>     external ASUS DVD-RW USB drive. It seemed to write data to disc
>>     1, and then it would tell me to insert another disc larger than
>>     1GB as Disc 1 again. I'll have to retry that tomorrow. Not sure
>>     what's going on there. I was using 4.7GB DVD-R discs. I just
>>     can't express how much I dislike *dows. There were no messages
>>     that Disc 1 was complete, or anything similar.
>>

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