Is it possible to take an HDD image of a Windows 95 installation on a CD-R using some kind of Live CD?
Posted by Pic889@reddit | vintagecomputing | View on Reddit | 6 comments
BigFatUglyBaboon@reddit
You want to take an image of the HDD on a CD? Consider that a CD Rom can hold max 700MB of data.
In any case, you could boot with a linux live CD and do the disk cloning, to whatever medium can fit the HDD data.
Terrible-Bear3883@reddit
If you want to save an image, perhaps use something like clonezilla and save an image file you can restore later if you want?
Pic889@reddit (OP)
Will Clonezilla run on Windows 95? And then I'll need some kind of CD burning software compatible with Windows 95, too.
This is why I was hopping on using a LiveCD to avoid running anything on Windows 95.
My Plan B is to use an IDE to USB adapter and use a modern PC to image the drive, but again, no clue what to use (hardware and software).
Terrible-Bear3883@reddit
You would use a clonezilla live CD or USB, make an image file of the drive, onto another USB or hard drive, you can do what you are thinking with an IDE connector on another PC but i would try clonezilla live first, I've done it most ways to back up and restore customer systems. I used to back my system up this way saving rhe clonezilla image file on a 2nd internal hard drive, then bruning the image file onto a CD when I was back in windows.
Pic889@reddit (OP)
I don't have a second IDE HDD, and I am not importing one to my country either. Since this PC doesn't have USB ports, it's either on-the-fly recording to CD-R or an IDE to USB adapter.
jet_heller@reddit
Windows can not run from a cd.