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[Broni]

Free version of Revo Uninstaller should do: http://www.revounins...e_download.html

[rokytnji]

If you want a Linux perspective next time you need to clone a image or look at partitions or boot Windows using a Live Linux Tool. (Broni gave me permission to confuse you with Linux)

Any Linux Live CD like Ubuntu (I prefer to use Puppy Linux 4.31 because it boots on most any gear) My Link gives you the direct download of Puppy 4.31 Live Iso. I usually recommend Image Burn if one has no iso image burn software. Nero will do the job though if you have it. Live cd does not install unless you tell it to. You get a fully running operating system running off of CD.
At shutdown. You will be asked to save or not save. Just pick not save.

Puppy Will have a partition editor like Disk Management in Windows Called Gparted. You can use that to just look at Partition Structure on any Windows Box to see if it has a recovery partition or separate boot partition. You don't have to just use it for formatting one. It is a good tool for just looking at partitions via a GUI interface. It won't list drives as "C" , "D", etc... but list them as hda or sda (for internal hardrives) and sdb or hdb (external pendrives and hardrives) You will notice no windows partitions on my IBM A22 Pentium 3 256mb 20gig IDE Laptop. That is because. Windows crawls on 256MB of ram while my 2.5.34 Kernel AntiX 8.5 with Firefox 4.4 flies on 256MB of ram on a P3 Laptop. hda5 is my Puppy 4.0 Dingo install with Firefox 4.4, Seamonkey 2.0.6, Skype. All the stuff Windows can do. I can do in Linux except Photoshop (Gimp is OK for me but purists like photoshop)



For Cloning. I used a tool that comes stock in Puppy Linux that is called PUDD. ( Link is Puppy linux Manual free in downloadable PDF Format) I made a mirror image of my Windows XP stock install from the factory on my Asus EEEPC 701SD. I used Gparted in Puppy to shrink Windows by a few hundred MBs because the 8gig SD exernal Flash drive I had was not a true 8 gig like the internal 8 gig SSD Phison Drive in my Asus 701SD. Hence. Shrink the partition Windows sat on by enough MBs to fit the external SD Card. When one Shrinks a Windows Partition using Linux. I recommend rebooting into Windows First. Because windows will do a check disk before it boots because the partition was shrunk. The Destination Drive (my 8 gig External Flash SD) has to be formatted as NTFS before PUDD can be used. The dd command that PUDD uses says the file system of destination drive must be the same as source drive (internal drive windows sits on).

The cloned SD drive I made boots right into Windows XP if I insert the card and change bios boot order using ESC key on my EEEPC. If I ever want to restore my XP image back into my internal SSD drive in the Asus. PUDD will handle it. It does not remove Windows from source drive. That stays there intact. Just clones it to whatever you point it to.

Now. There is a Linux tool called Super Grub Disk. The Link can explain better than I what it can do. It is also a Linux Live CD that can be burned with Image burn or Nero to CD.

I've also used Linux to clean infected Windows Pcs using CLAMAV,NOD32 Linux Version,FPROTLinux Version. There is a Avira and AVG for Linux also. Can be downloaded, installed into Live CD. If Wanting to keep it. Pick save on shutdown in puppy and point save to CDROM Disk. It will write the changes to cd and will be there on next boot.

There. Hoped I confused the situation enough/ I've heard this at other Windows Forums

Happy Trails, Rok