Re: [BLACKBOX] disk image editor

From: [at]} <Wojtek>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 11:41:07 -0400

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Try Partition Magic. I used it in good old days and it used to work very
well.

Wojtek



> Thanks for the replies.
>
> 1. I found what I had remembered: http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.
> and
> http://www.winimage.com/download.htm
>
> This was used at one time to manage the boot partition for multi boot with
> one of the Oberon family systems from a while back.
> It has a companion product called Winimage. It is Winimage that does one
> of the things that may be useful to me.
>
> 2. My real problem. I was re-sizing a partition in Ubuntu Lucid Lynx. A
> storm came through, and I interrupted the process. The partition is
> corrupted. I want to repair the partition. There is no space for a
> backup
> installation. That is why I was doing the re-sizing.
>
> The approach. I have installed Oracle VM Virtual Box on a windows machine
> with adequate disk space and installed Ubuntu Lucid Lynx on it. I wish I
> had explored the virtual box before, it may be a very good use of your
> time
> to look this over for an hour or two. I have a live USB Ubuntu boot
> system. I plan to log into the distressed machine and make a sector per
> sector clone of the hard disk across the network.
>
> The problem in this approach that is DD will not copy a partition to a
> network share as my system is configured. I am going to try partimage and
> see if it will. In order to set this up, I plan to make a disk image of
> an
> unformatted 170 GB disk to import into the Virtual Box system. This is
> where winimage comes in.
>
> There is probably a more direct way to accomplish this...
>
>
> 3. Interesting things discovered.
> It turns out that the Bluebottle (AOS) CD boots and runs on the VM Virtual
> Box. It also turns out that the Oberon0 floppy disk halts with OB printed
> on the screen. I think this is where the first sector has loaded and is
> trying to load the rest of the boot image, but it has been a long time
> since I looked at the boot sector source.
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Treutwein Bernhard <
> Bernhard.Treutwein{([at]})nowhere.xy
>
>> Hi Aubrey,
>>
>> Yes, Chris is alright, the easy way under Linux/Unix is dd ...
>>
>> Otherwise you could use rawrite.exe from the Native Oberon download area
>> ftp://ftp.ethoberon.ethz.ch/Oberon/System3/Native/StdAlone but that
>> offers
>> only the opposite direction. But googling for rewrite gets you there:
>> http://fdos.info/ripcord/rawrite/ a page, which apparently covers
>> everything
>> you may need ... (it also refers to dd for Unix/Linux).
>>
>> regards
>> Bernhard
>>
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