Imaging WinXP using Knoppix

1. Boot from knoppix


2. Repartition your drive
   
   
   
   1. Base Partition - This is were your winXP is installed
   
   
   2. Image Partition - this is were your image of windows xp will be copied
   
   
   
   


3. mount the  image partition: mount /dev/sda2 /media/img


4. Use the command to create the img: ntfsclone -s -o /media/img/winxp.img /dev/sda1


5. use the command to restore the img: ntfsclone  --restore-image -O /dev/sda1  /media/img/winxp.img


6. Enjoy

Note: It is a good idea to have ext3 as filesystem for your image partition so that the image file is not deleted accidentally and also it overwrites the FAT32 2GB filesize limit.