I have a mac dual booting with windows vista, and I need to send my laptop in for repairs, and I'm a bit distrusting when it comes to sending them my computer, so I normally wipe it clean.
Would it be possible to backup my windows partition, wipe my whole drive, and then put it back on when I get it back?
There's also q chance that they'll just upgrade me instead of fixing this, so would that make a difference?
You can use GParted to copy partitions, but the entire process takes ages. It would probably be wiser to copy all the files you want off of it, reformat, then reinstall.
It isn't so much the files, I have them all on my external already, it's that I don't still have installers or disks for all the shit I use.
[url=http://gparted.sourceforge.net/]GParted[/url] would probably serve you well then. Don't forget to copy the boot partition so you can actually boot the thing after you copy the partitions back over.
Just don't be surprised if it takes a year and a half to copy them.
EDIT: Forgot to mention you need another drive for this one. If you want to make an image of the thing, do what TBD said.
Create a drive image:
[url]http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm[/url]
[QUOTE=JIAC;20920791][url=http://gparted.sourceforge.net/]GParted[/url] would probably serve you well then. Don't forget to copy the boot partition so you can actually boot the thing after you copy the partitions back over.
Just don't be surprised if it takes a year and a half to copy them.
EDIT: Forgot to mention you need another drive for this one. If you want to make an image of the thing, do what TBD said.[/QUOTE]
Well I have a 1tb external with about 600gb left, and my partition is only 30, so I should be good.
Once I get this back, should I just partition my drive in OS X, and just copy\paste what I put on that onto the partitioned space?
As far as I know, with GParted, you don't need to make a new partition first and you can just directly copy the thing to any empty unformatted space on the drive. Don't know if OS X's partition editor can do that or not (I don't own a Mac).
GParted runs from a bootable LiveCD, if it matters to you.
Well that killed that option. The reason that I have to send it in is that the superdrive isn't working :v:
For the record: [url]http://gparted.sourceforge.net/liveusb.php[/url]
I'm just backing it up with that DriveImage XML, giving me an estimate of under an hour with compression on fast.
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