WinPE - problem with Unknown Partition Types

[franko_c]

Hello,

I have created a WinPE 2004 ISO image that I use to run some ADS capture and restore commands (using imgdeploy) and it works very well for capturing and restoring Windows 2003 images from a network share. However, I was also looking to backup and restore Linux systems from the same WinPE bootable ISO. Is this possible?

Unfortunately when I try running the ADS image capture command ("imgdeploy /c /p \Device\Harddisk0\Partition1 \\Server\Share\MyImage.img") I immediately get an error "unknown partition type".

Specifically, we have RedHat Linux 4.0 servers with EXT3 file system. When I run the DISKPART command from command line in WinPE, I see two partitions listed on my Linux server (with the Partition 1 listed as "Unknown", which I assume is the /BOOT partition). I was wondering if there is any way to snap an image of the server using ADS (or some other 3rd party utility) from a WinPE CD? I would also need to be able to restore the same image as well.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[jaclaz]

Cannot say if it helps, but latest (8.00) version of Winimage supports reading EXTFS 2 and 3 partitions:

www.winimage.com

If you have a Linux EXT2FS or EXT3FS partition, and run Windows NT4/2000/XP/2003 server, you can connect this partition in read only mode with ?File Connect Linux drive??. You need Administrative right to use this feature.

jaclaz