About Tom Guertin Expertise I can answer Desktop and Laptop hardware questions as well as software questions. I have worked as a programmer 9 years, test/QA 9 years, and system administration 7 years. Having a diverse background helps in diagnosing computer problems.
Experience Rocket Software Oct 14, 2002 – Present
Senior Systems Engineer: Responsible for all software and hardware installations, analysis, and support on all desktops and laptops. Support 200 remote employees along with 5 remote sites. Build servers, test, and build systems. Manage Active Directory, Exchange, Call Manager, and Unity accounts.
EMC Corporation Dec 31, 1999 – Nov 11, 2001
Senior Software QA Team Lead Engineer: Responsible for full software quality assurance of EMC's SymAPI and SymCLI software for Base and Control functionality.
Created full regression test suite in perl.
Peritus Software Services Sep 4, 1994 – Mar 30, 2001
Senior Software Engineer: Maintain outsourced code for CV, BULL, DG (UNIX), and Stratus (UNIX). Assist Y2K renovation team as project leader and COBOL renovator for Y2K compliance.
Team leader for as many as 21 engineers.
Supported DG AOS/VS II and AVIION (UNIX) communications products and AOS/VS II Databases. Maintained DG’s patch download website by modifying the XML web page, making each fix available.
Sys admin for both DG AOS/VS II and AVIION (UNIX) platforms.
BULL Worldwide Information Systems Inc. Aug 1988 – Sep 1994
Senior Software Engineer: Designed, Developed, Maintained, and Component Tested File System, Printer, and Device Utilities in an ISO 9000 environment using Assembly and C.
Maintained 21 utilities, fixing all problems within company wide goal.
Re-wrote 5 utilities in assembly with only 1 reported problem since 1989.
Maintained a Dump Analysis Utility, which enables users to follow system structures, dump group information, and analyze memory.
SQA component tested all DPS6 utilities.
KRAFT Inc., Dairy Group Oct 1986 - Aug 1988
Computer Programmer: Designed and developed a program that accounts for all maintenance parts, repairs, and moneys using DBASE III Plus.
Purchasing agent for all building and machine maintenance.
Education/Credentials EDUCATION: University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Major: BS. Computer Systems Engineering
I would like to make a disk clone of my master drive so that I can restore it if I need to. I went over to http://www.clonezilla.org/
Since my computer has a CD ROM driver and rewritable DVD drive, I downloaded the Clonezilla live ISO file because on the Downloads page at clonezilla.org it says you need this if you have CD/DVD drives.
I also went into BIOS and found that the boot sequence is in the order of CD ROM drive, diskette drive and hard drive. So that meant that I could use my cd drive to boot the iso file.
So I downloaded clonezilla-live-1.2.2-26.iso from the clonezilla website and copied it to a CD rewritable compact disk. I then placed the compact disk in the CD ROM drive which is the master cd drive.
I then restarted the computer but this clonezilla live program did not boot up !!
I tried and tried to find where I went wrong by reading the website pages but could not find what I was looking for.
Can you help please ?
Thank you.
Answer Trigan,
I have no experience with this software. I suggest removing the Floppy out of the boot sequence. It really isn't used any more.
I do things differently. I save my data to an external drive, you can use CD's or DVD's. Once I have my data, I just rebuild my system if I get hit with a virous or hard drive failure. Your recovery partition exists on your C: drive and it's as easy as hitting a function key at boot up to rebuild. You should create Recovery CD's if you do not have them because if your hard drive dies, your recovery partition is gone. The only way to rebuild after that, is to contact support and ask them to send you CD's
