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First post, by mwhyena

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I picked up a very unique dell 433DM machine today. It's got a special dell edition of windows 3.11 among lots of goodies in software. The disk didn't want to cooperate right away so I was worried it failed during the drive back. However, letting it "warm up" by leaving it at the BIOS error screen to try again managed to allow it to read. It has some pauses between reads which tells me I should image it ASAP. However, I don't have a second disk I can clone it to. I want to slap in an ISA ethernet card and load up a DOS utility to make a disk backup over ethernet vs writing endless floppies to copy over. Does such utility exist?

Reply 2 of 9, by Joseph_Joestar

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Acronis True Image can do this in version 8.0.

You boot from the CD, then select a network destination, and it will clone the hard drive contents there.

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Reply 3 of 9, by Grzyb

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There's plenty of ways...

I've recently imaged an HDD using Disk Editor from Norton Utilities, writing it all to a file located on a Samba share, mapped in DOS using Microsoft Network Client 3.0.

On later machines, where it's possible to boot a live-CD Linux, it's as simple as:
smbmount (...) /mnt/remoteshare (NFS also works)
cat /dev/hda > /mnt/remoteshare/filename.img

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Reply 4 of 9, by st31276a

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Linux dd and netcat will do the thing.

Server: nc -l 9000 | dd of=disk.img

Boot an old version of linux on the old computer, preferably something like a stiffy based router distro like freesco. Configure the network card.

Client: dd if=/dev/hda | nc 192.168.what.ever 9000

Reply 7 of 9, by lolo799

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mwhyena wrote on 2025-02-01, 17:04:
lolo799 wrote on 2025-02-01, 15:29:

You can also try an older version of g4u
https://www.feyrer.de/g4u/

I suppose you have a dx2-33, how much ram installed?

It has 4MB of total memory

Maybe the 1.1.7 release would work.
Or the tomsrtbt boot floppy with netcat and dd as written by st31276a above.

Dolly in dos will work but you'll need to set a network share.

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Reply 9 of 9, by st31276a

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A usb to ide converter is a very handy thing to have on hand. I found mine in a bargain bin a decade or so ago for next to nothing. It makes it very simple to prepare ide drives for old systems on modern systems, as well as imaging them for backup.