Recovery Partitions

[Gary Jarrel]

I figured that something like dd might to the trick, I was thinking of
creating an ISO image of the primary partition, placing that onto the
hidden partition. Then I need an option to make the hidden partition
bootable, to avoid using any floppies. It could boot into a linux
based distribution such as ubuntu I guess, and present the user with a
menu allowing them to override the contents on the first partition
with the contents of the ISO image hidden on the second partition?

Lets forget for now using a hot key to boot the second (hidden)
partition and assume we can just make the switch of the bootable
partitions in the BIOS for repair purposes?


Thank you for all your help!

Gary

On 11/16/06, rpowersau at gmail.com <rpowersau at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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