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backing up a whole hard disk



On Thursday 12 May 2005 2:46 pm, Gregory Boyce wrote:
> On Thu, 12 May 2005, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > For the most part, a file-by-file backup will work fine even for
> > Windows. I do that for Windows 9x, and the only additional action
> > needed when restoring is to run the SYS utility. I'm not 100% sure what
> > you would need to do with Windows 2K or XP.
>
> Unless your partition is NTFS due to the immaturity of the NTFS linux
> driver.
For the most part, Linux can read the NTFS file system with no problem, but 
restoring it could be an issue. 

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