Using a Linux Live CD to clone XP

[jl_harry12]

Reply to Post 66....
+Thanks, Saikee, will try - I'm away from that PC at present.
hda1 appear to me to be the booting bit - ie the Linux program itself?
hda6 appears to be a small swap-file - this is OK - i.e. what I expect.
but hda2 and hda5 both appear to start at the "same place" - can this be right?

What I wanted was to keep the pictures in a separate partition...at the time I didn't understand I needed FAT32 to read in Win98SE.....but now I do, so it would be nice if Ubuntu would save files so I can read them on another machine.......

[[.aside: If I can burn under Ubuntu, a CD with jpeg images.....can that be read by my Win98SE computer? - I'm sure it works the other way round, because normally I take files off the camera memory card and do some/no adjustment then Win98SE- Nero-burn to CD and copy also a spare HDD, attached via USB. I don't know if the burner works in Ububtu - will test with a picture, perhaps..]]

The partition (fdisk -l)data I gave you was from the PartedMagic LiveCD, I presume I ran as Terminal. As far as I can see, the usual "Copy-Paste" doesn't exist, neither can you link to an internet site - the LiveCD is only 30MB (they say) - - - I'll suggest they add these features, since the person running the LiveCD may not know enough, like me, but willing to learn. There may be an issue with memory since it cannot touch the HDD(other than Read) and will only have 256M to run the program segments - but I suspect it could be done even a text editor and save to USB which almost every PC has. The presumption being that it is the internal HDD that is faulty and in need of a LiveCD to check it out.

When Ubuntu is running...... I recall, if I run "Disk Manager" it tells me that one partition of (about 56G) is not accessible and it is this "statement" that concerns me.....what have I done, etc?
I will try to establish which hda it is....and yr request also....but I'm not entirely sure what yr asking, so don't expect too clear an answer.

There is no work on the Ubuntu PC that is worth saving, maybe a test document in /home and some pictures I've Gimp'd .... The issue of FAT32 came about because I have a valid Win98SE instalation disc and even now cheap printers(like Lexmark) come with a Win98SE driver.
- Multifunction Print/Copy/Scanners are very cheap and I suspect not likley to have a driver for Ubuntu - hence the need to transfer to-fro using Windows98SE which for all its legendary faults talks USB, internet and so on, indeed my Paint-Shop-Pro is hardly any different from Gimp....both having dire interfaces....but at least I can print snaps from the Win98SE computer. due to a (maybe) faulty LPT1 and PCI LPT2 card..... on the Ubuntu motherboard.

The 1st issue for me, has to be finding out whether that 56G really is missing and then, what-how to format it.....oh dear!
Oh and I don't appear to have gparted under the pull-down menus - under Ubuntu, I've only used Disc Manager and Terminal (although that wasn't too good hence making a CD of PartedMagic even though I ended-up using terminal I think.....Confusion!