Recovery And Back Up Of Hard Drive

[aldtech]

Recovery And Back Up Of Hard Drive

I am currently in the process of doing a complete re-image of of a spare hard drive for my T40 laptop. I am using a set of IBM recovery CDs for my model to recreate the recovery partition and restoring from there. After I do all of the updates I intend to create a back-up image of the entire drive to include the hidden recovery partition and want to know if Ghost will see and image that hidden partition? The reason I ask because I have tried this before on a drive that did contain the partition but it never got copied to the image. If Ghost will/can not copy this hidden partition what software can?

Thanks and regards.

Al D.

[killer]

I have used Rescue and Recovery and it recreates everything from the point at which you made the image, including the hidden partition containing R&R.
I was very impressed.

Let's hope it works for you. However, if you prefer the belt and braces approach then take another copy to an external HDD or DVD/CDs. Just in case ...

[aldtech]

I have used Rescue and Recovery and it recreates everything from the point at which you made the image, including the hidden partition containing R&R.
I was very impressed.

Let's hope it works for you. However, if you prefer the belt and braces approach then take another copy to an external HDD or DVD/CDs. Just in case ...

I am not sure that I understand what you are saying.(?) Are you implying that after I complete the new build that there is an installed IBM application that will create a backup image of the hard drive? What is this application because I do not see a "Rescue and Recovery" application in the Access IBM menu but I do see an "IBM Rapid Restore PC" option. Does this option create the back up that you refer to?

AL D

[aldtech]

Well I have answered my own question in regards to using Ghost - it does not see the hidden partition and obviously will not copy it if it does not see it. Is there another imaging software out there that does see the hidden partition and subsequently copies it?

The reason I am persistent in finding a imaging solution that includes the hidden partition is because I am planning in the near future to refurbish older IBM laptops (T3x - T4x) for resale and would be greatly discouraged if I Had to use the recovery disks for every laptop I plan to restore, that would just eat into my turn-around time and time is money.

Thanks for any direction that anyone can provide.

Regards

Al D.

[killer]

Rescue & Recovery version 4.21.0016 can be downloaded from Lenovo's website. It replaces the very old IBM Rapid Restore program.

[tom lightbody]

clonezilla worked for me: from one 20GB hd to another 20GB hd it copied the
hidden restore partition so that now, when the target drive is installed, "f11"
gives a complete virgin reinstallation of the OS (taiwanese XP-home:-).

clonezilla constitutes a bootable CD that provides a point-click interface to the unix
utility "dd" the Digital Dumper. I found it easy to use once I noticed that
the response 'Y' upper case is not recognized as 'y' lower case, nor vice versa.