As I mentioned in an earlier email, the Worcester Area Association for
Computing Machinery will be having a Linux Installfest on March 27th. We
are working under the assumption that many of the people that will attend
will want to keep their Windows installations as well. Therefore, we need
a nondestructive repartitioning software package. It would also be nice
if we could make an image of their hard drive before we do anything so we
can ensure the integrity of the data if something were to go wrong.
Unfortunately, the IT departments does not have copies of Partition Magic
or Ghost that we could use for the event. Does anybody have an
appropriately licensed copy of the software that we could use , or know of
Open Source / Freeware alternatives that are as reliable as their
commercial counterparts? Does someone's place of work have such software
that they would be willing for the ACM to use for the event? Is anybody
aware of Open Source / Freeware alternatives that are just as reliable as
these software packages (these systems will probably be using NTFS, which
is much more fickle than FAT32 when it comes to these things)
Any assistance in this matter would be greatly appreciated, and the ACM
welcomes the WLUG to the Installfest on the 27th.
Sincerely,
Ryan Caron
ACM Secretary
