kjs39186@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Kent Squires) (04/02/91)
I've got a 40MB //e Vulcan and was wondering if I could backup a 32MB partition (which has less than 10MB of data) and then restore it to a 20MB partition. Is this possible to do using the Backup program from ProSel? On the subject of the Vulcan, I have about a total of 10-12 bad blocks on mine and was wondering if anybody had a program that would actually repair these. _________________________________________________________________________ | Move over Rover & |Email Addresses: Kent Squires | | let Jimi take over!| Internet: kjs39186@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu | | -------------------| ProLine: kents@pro-apa | | I wouldn't do it |_______ America OnLine: kents12 | | for all the farms in Cuba! | FidoNet: 233/15 Kent Squires | |____________________________|____________________________________________|
randy@Oswego.EDU (Randy Fromm) (04/04/91)
In article <1991Apr2.081400.2883@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> kjs39186@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Kent Squires) writes: >I've got a 40MB //e Vulcan and was wondering if I could backup a 32MB >partition (which has less than 10MB of data) and then restore it to a 20MB >partition. Is this possible to do using the Backup program from ProSel? > >On the subject of the Vulcan, I have about a total of 10-12 bad blocks on >mine and was wondering if anybody had a program that would actually repair >these. With regard to the backup question, the answer is yes... ProSel will allow you to select the drive/partition to which the backup is to be restored; it need not be the same drive/partition which was backed up... A warning though... if the backedup/restored drive/partition was running under ProSel, you'll have to go in and redo all of your menus to align the paths to the new partition. (I go through this about once a quarter when I realign everything on a stupid whim) as far as the bad block question goes I cannot help you there. randy@oswego.oswego.edu