fritzdeelman
Well-Known Member
I have been playing around with SystemRescueCD for a few days now. I am pretty impressed with what I could achieve with this very usefull tool.
The GParted tool is a breeze to use and I could resize partitions without any hazzles. Just forgot to set the boot flag once when creating a new partition on a fresh disk.
I used Partimage to create clones of Windows XP and Vista partitions on my flash drive. I restored these without any problem. I had less success with drbl-winroll in resetting the SID. I have downloaded newSID (download here) but have not tested it yet. I also succesfully managed to restore an image from my Windows Small Business Server machine although I had to change local security policy as windows digitally signs network traffic by default and this feature is not enabled on SystemRescueCD. I am however unable to create a new image and store it directly on the network. mount -t cifs only allows me read access and it does not seem to me as if NTFS-3G can mount network shares.
I would like to figure out how to load SystemRescueCD to RAM drive or alternatively load it onto my flash drive so that I can restore images from DVDs.
Another cool tool I found was ntpass that I succesfully used to reset (blank) the Local Administrator password on my XP box (less succesfull in setting another password). I have also used the command line to successfully restore the registry files. If anyone knows about other usefull stuff you can do with this CD I would like to know about it.
The GParted tool is a breeze to use and I could resize partitions without any hazzles. Just forgot to set the boot flag once when creating a new partition on a fresh disk.
I used Partimage to create clones of Windows XP and Vista partitions on my flash drive. I restored these without any problem. I had less success with drbl-winroll in resetting the SID. I have downloaded newSID (download here) but have not tested it yet. I also succesfully managed to restore an image from my Windows Small Business Server machine although I had to change local security policy as windows digitally signs network traffic by default and this feature is not enabled on SystemRescueCD. I am however unable to create a new image and store it directly on the network. mount -t cifs only allows me read access and it does not seem to me as if NTFS-3G can mount network shares.
I would like to figure out how to load SystemRescueCD to RAM drive or alternatively load it onto my flash drive so that I can restore images from DVDs.
Another cool tool I found was ntpass that I succesfully used to reset (blank) the Local Administrator password on my XP box (less succesfull in setting another password). I have also used the command line to successfully restore the registry files. If anyone knows about other usefull stuff you can do with this CD I would like to know about it.
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