<> wrote:
> I search for a (free of cost) program which makes me an image of a
> partition with a vista installation. Later I want to put the image to
> a smaller partition.
Transferring an OS installation to a smaller partition is unusual,
although I know that Casper (by Future Systems Solutions in its
paid-for version) can do it by transferring only sectors with data
in them. Since I had already bought a previous version of Casper
and thus already had an "account" at Future Systems Solutions,
I paid $10 to download their live CD .iso image and burned it to
a CD, and its works fine, although it takes several minutes to load
each time I use it.
I think the free utility Clonezilla can do what you want, too, but
as with most free utilities, the documentation is minimal, and it has
a Taiwanese "accent". I just gave up on it because it was so hard
to use.
The free partition editor Gparted can clone partitions, too, but
it's reputedly very slow. I've read reports of it taking a full day to
clone a single partition.
Have you tried out Vista's ImageX? I know virtually nothing
about it except what's here:
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Window....mspx?mfr=true ,
and here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en .
As you can see, there's a considerable amount of work involved
and a steep learning curve.
*TimDaniels*
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