XP 64 System Partition Saving Problem
Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 2:14 pm
I am having such a bad time with this it's unbelievable. For two days now all I've wanted to do is clone (image) my XP64 Pro NTFS partition to my second internal larger NTFS hard drive. Almost none of the commercial imaging software officially supports 64 bit despite some users having success and I've downloaded, burnt to CD and trouble shot :
1 x System Rescue CD: Captive/NTFS doesn't work.
2 x Trinity Rescue Kit: Captive fails, Fuse works but PartImage fails.
3 x Ghost 4 Linux: All three boot CDs had 64 bit kernal panics.
1 x Ultimate Boot CD: can't get Partition Saving to write to NTFS.
Thats seven different programmes and two days of Unix tweaking. OK, here's my current problem with Partition Saving: Everything works fine until I reach where to save the Image file. I mount my NTFS partition which is assigned to 0 (zero). I can see it in the Drives and the Directories windows, in the File entry field I type either 0:\image.par or 0:\volumeName\image.par or \image.par, it makes no difference because every single time I get the message "INVALID OPENED FILE MODE". Admittedly I'm more used to Unix than Dos conventions but I've tried every back slash/ forward slash/ upper case/ lower case/ no suffix/ combination and none of them work. I've mirrored the exact naming conventions in all the walkthroughs but still the same error message above.
Something's wrong. I suspect this is another 64 bit problem. Any ideas? Or just tell me to use something else if you know a better alternative. Cheers -- Edwin.
1 x System Rescue CD: Captive/NTFS doesn't work.
2 x Trinity Rescue Kit: Captive fails, Fuse works but PartImage fails.
3 x Ghost 4 Linux: All three boot CDs had 64 bit kernal panics.
1 x Ultimate Boot CD: can't get Partition Saving to write to NTFS.
Thats seven different programmes and two days of Unix tweaking. OK, here's my current problem with Partition Saving: Everything works fine until I reach where to save the Image file. I mount my NTFS partition which is assigned to 0 (zero). I can see it in the Drives and the Directories windows, in the File entry field I type either 0:\image.par or 0:\volumeName\image.par or \image.par, it makes no difference because every single time I get the message "INVALID OPENED FILE MODE". Admittedly I'm more used to Unix than Dos conventions but I've tried every back slash/ forward slash/ upper case/ lower case/ no suffix/ combination and none of them work. I've mirrored the exact naming conventions in all the walkthroughs but still the same error message above.
Something's wrong. I suspect this is another 64 bit problem. Any ideas? Or just tell me to use something else if you know a better alternative. Cheers -- Edwin.