You cant, but sometimes you need to spend a bit of money to get the job done <grin> and if a commercial pay for it product will do the job a hell of allot better than any free product then so be it <grin>.
Also if symantic would be willing to give away some copies then take it!! it will do a good job, better than any oss solutions <grin>
Please go and buy a copy of Windows and quit the LUG.
I had prepared a lengthy rant about the reliability of Free software tools, the number of times I've used knoppix to recover files from a windows machine that no longer boots, and the disaster I recently had to deal with after a user tried to use Ghost to copy an ext3 filesystem. However, I'm starting to think that DrWho "just doesn't get it". WLUG exists to promote and support Free operating systems and Free software. There are Free tools that will safely backup a Windows filesystem. There are Free tools that will repartition a harddrive. The only issue here is that backing up takes time, repartitioning is never without risk, and the general concensus is we should do neither. Let's focus on promotion; has anyone contacted any of the 'free' papers to see if they'll run an article for us? Does anyone object if I go ahead with it?