Could you have a hard drive imaging option in Grub ?

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Published on 2009-08-09T23:31:46Z Indexed on 2010/04/20 2:43 UTC
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Hello, I really like hd imaging programs, such as norton ghost, but I find that I don't run then as often as I should.

Would it be possible to have, in grub, the following menu items: ?

Boot from hard disk
Copy hard disk to image
Restore image

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