Diego,

If you backup the partition table and the restore it do your images work then? I use the dd method described below to backup the partition table and it has worked great for me.

Backup the Partition Table To backup the partition table to a file, we can use dd as follows:

dd if=/dev/hda of=/mnt/hdc1/my-hda.mbr count=1 bs=512

Linux treats a filesystem or a partition as a file, and the syntax above specifies the input file to be the /dev/hda partition, and the output file is a file on our target HDD. The other parameters specify that only a single block should be copied, and we're forcing the filesize to be 512 bytes.

The output filename is arbitrary, so give it a suitable name that indicates which HDD it relates to. A ".mbr" file extension indicates it contains details relating to the master boot record.

Backup Extended Partition Information If you have any extended partitions on the HDD being imaged, the details of the extended partitions can be saved as follows:

sfdisk -d /dev/hda > /mnt/hdc1/my-hda.sf

This will dump the partition table contents into the file we specify, in a format suitable for easily rebuilding the partition table. Again, the output filename is arbitrary, so use a suitable filename.

Restoring From Images Restoring from these images is just the reverse of the process described above, with the System Rescue CD containing all the utilities required to do this:

* use dd to restore the partition table (dd if=/mnt/hdc1/my-hda.mbr of=/dev/hda) * use sfdisk to restore the extended partition information (sfdisk /dev/hda < /mnt/hdc1/my-hda.sf) * create swap structure on the swap partition (mkswap /dev/hda3) * reboot * restore each partition using Partition Image

This info was copied from: http://martybugs.net/linux/image.cgi

Thank You, Ben Dailey bdailey@bhmsd.k12.in.us Asst. Technology Director Bluffton-Harrison MSD www.bhmsd.k12.in.us

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"Diego ." eljedi@gmail.com 2/15/2007 11:50 AM >>>

Hi,

I'm trying to make some kind of imageserver. I backed up my windows 2000 boot partition to an image file on the server. I restore it, without problems..everything is ok. But if i change hdd, o if destroy partition and create a new one ( same size, same place ), i can restore the image but windows won't boot. when i check filesystem y get some errors ( of course they weren't when i backup the partition ). I even fixboot and mbr with the same result.

Anyone can helpme with some tip?

Thanks!!