Multi-disk, OS on a single image: some questions…
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Hi there,
I recently created a, what I called, "total backup," with a good assortment of various disks from various machines. With that, I have a couple questions and a concern:
Is this reccomended? Is there anything I need to look out for when doing so, if I were to continue?
My concern is regarding a disk containing an old Win 98 backup on a Co(n)mpaq laptop. The bios requires a partition at some certain something-or-the-other. Other, single-drive dedicated images restore flawlessly, however trying to restore my "master backup" currently bricks the startup. Im not sure if the partition order or something wemt out of whack, or say a LUN was assigned to a system partition or w/e, but im able to read the two partitions that were assigned to the drive fine from a DOS bootdisk, though the system partition is a mystery to me.
Im going to restore the non-system partitions when i get around it as a fix to my 'concern,' I'd love to hear y'alls input.
Actually I have no idea what you meant "a good assortment of various disks from various machines". You'd better to explain more.
BTW, I believe you can try your scenario in a virtual machine with Clonezilla live. Virtualbox is open source, you can download and test it.
Just give it a try, and you should be able to find the answer by yourself.
Steven