Partition Saving 4.50

Partition Saving is a DOS, Windows and Linux program that is used to save, restore and copy hard-drive, partitions, floppy disk on DOS, Windows or Linux devices.With this program you could save all data on a partition to a file (such as you could save this file on a CD for example). Then if something goes wrong, you can completely restore the partition from the backup file. You no longer have to reinstall every piece of software from scratch. All you have to do is restore the partition from the backup file and then update any software that was modified since the backup was created.

Note: beware of software which installs or modifies files on multiple partitions (e.g. Windows programs which update the registry or DLLs that may be on other partitions). If one partition is saved or restored, you must include others (otherwise, inconsistencies could prevent software from running).

Partition Saving is able to compress data (using the gzip compression algorithm) and split it up into several files (e.g. if you need to save a 2 Gb partition onto a CD, this can be done by compressing it and, if necessary, splitting it up into 650 Mb files). Most partition types are supported. In the case of FAT (12, 16 and 32), ext2/3 and NTFS partitions, you can choose between saving all sectors or in-use sectors only.

Features:
saving an element (hard disk, partition, floppy disk, device)
restoring an element that was saved before
copying an element
copying a backup file created by this program, modifying its size or compression rate
verifying created files
updating partition definition in Windows 2000/XP/Vista registry
updating BOOTSECT.DOS/BOOTSECT.BAK file
exploring a partition
simulating elements with created files
creating files on a NTFS drive under Windows for use in saving
cancelling bad sectors information of a filesystem

Changelog:

Detailed Changes:

32- V4.50

Evolutions made are:

• add of detection of hibernated Windows or Linux such as you get a warning is such a system is encountered. As the data were not flushed to disk and system will ignore any change done to disk when it is restarted, performing a backup or modifying the disk should be avoided in that case. A good way to ensure a system is not hibernated is to choose to restart it instead of shutting it down,
• update console handling on Windows to take new console mode in Windows 10 (console can be resized as on Linux with using "-tuix" option),
• add capability to reuse a raw file such as you could access several partitions in the file if it contains a partitionned disk,
• add capability to use "main_part=" and "ext_part=" options with raw files in options file in case raw file contains a partitionned disk,
• treat "heads_sectors=parttable" option in DOS version to use physical definition deduced from partitions table as in Linux and Windows versions such as backup files use the same physical definition. This avoids getting difference in backup file content depending on used OS,
• add "cylinders=" option in options file to force number of cylinders (useful only for the same reason than previous change),
• add "-termopt" command line option to give the flag used by Linux terminal to execute a command. It is "-e" as default to match flag used by xterm.

Remark:
This version can restore files created with previous versions. Reverse is true also. You can get difference in physical definition if you use "heads_sectors=parttable" option in DOS version or "cylinders=" option. This could have an influence only in case you choose to save all sectors or use the "only_if_same=" option as the physical definition will no more match.

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