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Partimage Party

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005 at 4:17 pm

I’ve been re-installing Windows today so that I can play Morrowind. Being as installing Windows XP is as pleasant as amputating your own arm with a rusty teaspoon, I’ve created my own restore partition using Knoppix.

The first time I tried to create an image it was a failure, I installed the windows on NTFS and partimage support for that is untested (and the imaging caused a blue screen on boot). So I reinstalled Windows with the main partition on FAT32.

It works well. I now have an image containing Windows XP Home SP2 with Outlook Express and Windows Messenger removed and Firefox and Thunderbird added in.

Creating an image was as simple as:

partimage -z2 save /dev/hda1 windows_xp_image.bz

If there isn’t already one someone should make a tiny Linux distro for restoring stuff. It could boot from CD, create a partition to store a windows image and itself and give boot loader options, “Windows” and “Fix Windows”, it could also have the option of burning the partition image to a bootable DVD along with enough stuff to restore the image.

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One Response to “Partimage Party”

  1. skippy Says:
    May 30th, 2006 at 2:40 pm

    best way to remove windows messanger is to use

    RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove

    now all i want is the stupidly easy to remove the other crap, and to get things like .txt, .html [edit], .php and the like all assosated with Notepad2