James,

Continuing my habit of replying to messages *way* after the time was right to do so...

On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:28:08 -0700, James Newton wrote:

>...
> Short version: Does anyone have an old copy of a drive-imaging program that will work on an NT 4.0 server?

I can recommend DFSee - a disk-fettling program that can do so many things that I haven't found them all yet - and I've been using it for many years!

Among its features is a disk Cloning function (direct from one disk to another) and an Imager, which will create and restore files containing an image of a whole disk 
or individual partitions.  It runs under Windows (I don't know for sure that NT is included but I'd bet folding money that it is), DOS, Linux and OS/2.  You can also 
download files to create a bootable CD, or bootable floppies.  The Bootable CD would probably be your best bet to clone a disk, because then you know for sure 
that nothing is in use on it.

There's a fully-functional (with nags) 30-day trial that you can download, but paying for it isn't exactly painful.  The author, Jan van Wijk, will help with any disk 
problems (as long as you've paid for the software) and this often involves sending a log file generated by DFSee, and he returns a script he's custom-written to fix 
whatever is wrong.

It's located here:  http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/index.php

It's not for the faint of heart - "User Friendly" it isn't, and I would never recommend it to a naive Windows-only user who has never typed a command, but it is well 
worth the time to learn how to do what you want, and when that's as simple as creating a disk clone, the learning curve is pretty trivial.

Declaring an Interest:  I don't get anything from recommending this, but I view Jan as a friend, having met him many times at OS/2 conferences in Europe and North 
America - and it turns out we used to work for the same firm, albeit in different countries...  I still pay for my copies of DFSee though!  :-)

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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