[LUNI] [OT] Backup windows 7 to Rescue the user!

[W. Scott Lockwood III]

On Thu, 2010-12-23 at 07:51 -0600, Craig Van Tassle wrote:
> I also will lose any on my desktop that is not used by windows. Not to
> mention Windows 7 does some strange things with the partitions tables.
> 
> I was looking for something that can give me access to the data, but
> still be able restore the system to it's current state if it does go
> pear shaped. 

The iso will let you do exactly that, actually. I would in that case
back up the entire drive to an iso file rather than just the partition,
so dd if=/dev/sda for example. That iso can then be written back to the
same drive to restore previous functionality.

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W. Scott Lockwood III