zome Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 Hi I have a drive I need to manually create a backup of. It's running Windows 95 so I can copy all the files manually (exept the pagefile which windows recreates anyway so no need for that one). Now I need to extract the MBR from the hard drive, but I dont know what software would save that to a file (which I can later use to recreate the MBR) and also be able to put the MBR back on the drive at a later point (from windows maybe?). Which software is recomended (preferrably free/freeware)? Now the second thing is, am I forgething something? Are the files and MBR the only things I need? Is there something else I should have saved before starting to FDISK my drive? Is there something else a disk imaging software (f.ex ghost) would have saved? Thanks Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/283795-manually-creating-an-exact-copy-of-a-drive/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
OPaul Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 fdisk can recreate the MBR. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/283795-manually-creating-an-exact-copy-of-a-drive/#findComment-585467805 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zome Posted February 20, 2005 Author Share Posted February 20, 2005 So I dont need to copy the MBR, only the files? I dont know, I dont feel like I am making a backup if I only copy the files. Souldnt I copy anything else? Anyway would I be able to copy back all the files later on? I mean are none of them going to be "in use"? I can only do this from windowes Thanks Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/283795-manually-creating-an-exact-copy-of-a-drive/#findComment-585505069 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OPaul Posted February 20, 2005 Share Posted February 20, 2005 If your wanting just to save your documents and such then just copy those but if you want an exact copy of the drive then get a program that will create an "image" of the drive. This will take your hard drive bit by bit and create one large file that you can put on a DVD or another hard drive and then put it back on the other drive later on. But either way the MBR isn't an issue, that can be recreated later. You'll want something like Norton Drive Image, I don't know of anything free of hand though. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/283795-manually-creating-an-exact-copy-of-a-drive/#findComment-585506057 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zome Posted February 22, 2005 Author Share Posted February 22, 2005 Well I want an as exact as possible image of a drive. I want to make an image of an old laptop which only has a floppy disk drive and a network card (ethernet). The laptop is running Windows 95 and I can connect it to my LAN. The problem is that the network card is a special one with special drivers that only work on Windows 95. I tried to make a bootable network disk both manually and with the symantec wizard so that I could make an image from DOS to another computer connected to the LAN. But as stated earlier the driver only works on Windows 95. The only way of doing an image with a software is if there is any software that can do a "hot image" while running in Windows 95 and saving the image on a mapped network drive. Is there any software that can do this? Since I havent found any I am trying to do it manually. I would appreciate any help on this subject (both on softwares and on how to do it manually) Thanks Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/283795-manually-creating-an-exact-copy-of-a-drive/#findComment-585515371 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OPaul Posted February 22, 2005 Share Posted February 22, 2005 No, you can't image a drive while the OS is loaded. There are locked files. Try using Bart's network boot disk. http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/network/ Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/283795-manually-creating-an-exact-copy-of-a-drive/#findComment-585517485 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zome Posted February 23, 2005 Author Share Posted February 23, 2005 Thats odd since in Windows 95 I can copy and paste all the files, exept the pagefile and the pagefile is recreated at startup anyhow so I have no need for that one. If I can do it manually a software should be able to do it too. I do belive Ghost 9.0 (formerly known as Powerquest Drive Image) can do a "hot image" even from Windows XP (which I know locks some files), but it needs the .NET framework to run, which I neither found for Windows 95 or have place to install on the hard drive even if I found a Windows 95 compatible version. Now I have created and used both Bart's network boot disk and other boot up disks. They have always worked, I never had a problem until I started to work on this laptop. Because it uses a very special way to connect to the network and therefore needs special drivers, it wont work from any other place than Windows 95. I am not the only one with problems, people running linux on this laptop also have problem to get the network going. Therefore I need to make an image while running Windows 95, either manually or by using a software. Thanks Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/283795-manually-creating-an-exact-copy-of-a-drive/#findComment-585520768 Share on other sites More sharing options...
angusmann Posted March 7, 2005 Share Posted March 7, 2005 Try this utility : Image for Windows and Image for DOS http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/ It can make an image of the Windows operating system while it is running and has no problem with open or locked files. I use it to back up my server O/S partition daily and have had to restore a couple of times (This is done from DOS over a network or from a self-booting CD/DVD. Restoring a 16GB Windows boot partition takes less than 10 minutes. This program seems to do everything Ghost can do at a fraction of the cost. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/283795-manually-creating-an-exact-copy-of-a-drive/#findComment-585580372 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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