Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Wed Dec 5 23:16:30 CST 2007
Hi John: You can see the entire drive but the selection of the file manager is not the same as in windows. It took me a while to become conversant with it but now it is second nature as much of much job is bringing the dead back to life. It is excellent for that. The program I would recommend to you for a full drive backup is ImageDrive XML (http://www.runtime.org/downloads.htm). You can backup an entire drive in shadow mode in the background while the drive is being used. Though the above program is delivered for free they have a group of excellent applications for managing drives in multiple formats. HTH Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 8:33 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'; 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: [dba-Tech] BartPE Well I finally rebuilt my server which was not booting but had windows2k3 installed on it. I was hoping to use the BartPE to manage to edit or otherwise fix the boot disk. Having rebuilt my server, suddenly I can build a BartPE disk on that machine. The odd part is that even though I am specifying an I386 for Windows 2003, it displays WindowsXP as the BartPE boots. I was also expecting more, not knowing what to expect. I kind of thought I was booting into windows and would be able to use it as windows, see the hard disks, etc. Not so. This whole thing is more than I want to learn. 8-( So off I go searching for a way to image my Windows 2003 install and restore that image later. I have a 200g bootable raid 6 partition with Windows 2003 fully installed, including software firewall, SQL Server, Visual Studio, WinRar etc. All the stuff that I need to get back up and running in a hurry. I have a spare 250g hard disk sitting at the end of a SATA which I would like to place an image of the disk on, and be able to copy from that disk back to the raid partition. I just have to figure out how to do that. The BartPE MIGHT be the answer, I am not sure. How to boot and see the raid drives and the SATA drive is the question, with a program that will copy that image back to the raid drive C: and allow a boot from that drive C: I have Acronis TrueImage but it is the "home" which is NOT supposed to be used on Servers, and they want a cool $600 for the one that will run on servers. Yikes. John W. Colby Colby Consulting www.ColbyConsulting.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com