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Home / Web Pads / Panasonic CF-01 How to create the IMAGE of the HD? Does anybody know the best and easiest way to creat the image of the CF-01's HD ?

How to create the IMAGE of the HD? (modified 0 times) Wayne2001 Profile Hello, I'm just about to receive the CF-01 in the mail. Of course, the first thing I wanna do is to create the image of the HD. But the system has NO CD or floppy. What is the most effective way to make a copy of the HD so I can restore it later on if needed? I think, I can make a direct connection to my laptop and use MS Backup to back up the entire HD. Or shall I just use COPY and PASTE to the laptop's HD? And again if I already start the CF-01 for the first time and go through the initial setup before making the IMAGE, the CF-01 image will not be virgin… I also have a Norton Ghost that I never had a chance to use. Does anybody know how to go about creating the VIRGING IMAGE of the HD??? I will really appreciate your time! Thanks, Wayne 04-25-2001 19:11:01

RE:How to create the IMAGE of the HD? (modified 0 times) Groch Profile | Email Good question, that has been discussed in the thread "Disk Image of Virgin CF-01. I do not think the solution described there, use of a direct parallel connection, will work for the reason you describe. My guess is the only way to do it is to remove the hard drive,(not hard,described elsewhere) and connect it as a slave to your PC with something like this http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=205-1991 . Then use ghost to make an image. I would like any other ideas, but if you are successful and can post your results it would be much appreciated. 04-25-2001 19:45:26

RE:How to create the IMAGE of the HD? (modified 0 times) JamesW Profile BTW the system does indeed have a floppy - it's in the docking station. 04-25-2001 19:59:27

RE:How to create the IMAGE of the HD? (modified 0 times) Glitch Profile I've come to the conclusion that removing the harddrive and connecting it on another computer is the fastest/easiest way to get a clean image. I've tried quite a few methods over the years. I've come to the conclusion that I am faster with a screwdriver than I am with a parallel cable or setting up a PCMCIA network card in DOS and DOS networking. The harddrive in the CF-01 comes out easily and desktop-to-laptop hard drive adapters are cheap. Why would you want to torture yourself with anything else? Glitch Electronics run on smoke, if you let the smoke out they won't work 04-25-2001 20:33:15

RE:How to create the IMAGE of the HD? (modified 0 times) pete Profile I have a virgin image that's 180 megs (in 14 Meg chunks) but can't seem to upload it on my freedrive accounts. If anyone wants to donate space I can post these files. 04-25-2001 20:43:53

RE:How to create the IMAGE of the HD? (modified 0 times) JunkLeo Profile goto http://briefcase.yahoo.com/, create 6 yahoo accounts. Each account can store 30MB, upload 2 file per account, then share the folders. briefcase.yahoo.com is very fast to me (~300kB/sec for downloading). Leo 04-25-2001 22:24:20

RE:How to create the IMAGE of the HD? (modified 0 times) Pat the Hack Profile Plug in a large enough PCMCIA HD, open a shell and type the following (assuming the PCMCIA HD is the "D:" drive): Xcopy32 c:\*.* D: /s/h/e/r/c/k/q/y This'll copy all the files and their attributes and won't choke when it can't copy the paging file... hope this helps, Patrick 04-25-2001 23:03:11

RE:How to create the IMAGE of the HD? (modified 0 times) JunkLeo Profile Patrick, Copying all files is different from creating the HD image. You can restore the HD image to other different type or size HD and still bootable. Copying all files will not make the Hd bootable (and lose the partition information.) Leo 04-26-2001 07:11:27

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