Recovery Partitions

[rpowersau at gmail.com]

On 11/15/06, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati <renaud at olgiati-in-paraguay.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 November 2006 09:23, my mailbox was graced by a missive
>  from "Gary Jarrel" <garyjarrel at gmail.com> who wrote:
>
> > Has anyone had any experience in doing something similar?
>
> What I have been doing for a gaggle of school computers is to create two
> primary partitions, one of which is hidden and invisible to Windows.
>
> Once I have finished the install I Ghost the visible partition to the hidden
> one, and I keep handy a bootable floppy with Ghost on it.

Along the same lines but a "linux way" of doing it ;-)

Boot a linux cd/floppy and:

dd if=/dev/<partition with windoze> of=/dev/<hidden partition>

>
> Not reached the point where I trust the little deast with the floppy yet  ;-3(
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ron.
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Regards,
Russ