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On Thu, 12 May 2005, 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. NTFS write support has no longer been marked "experimental" in 2.6 for a few revisions of the kernel. I assume that means that there aren't known problems with this support. Of course, I wouldn't bother with it for the backup and restore, and instead use the method recommended earlier. Nobody has discussed this yet, but my personal process for installing a dual-boot Windows system on a fresh disk: 1) boot Knoppix and partition, with first partition being NTFS for windows. Flag this partition as active; I don't think it's always required, but I've heard of this being mandatory on some hardware with some versions of Windows. 2) install Windows. It will ignore the non-Windows partitions. 3) install linux, install boot loader in MBR (this will override Windows boot loader) and configure linux boot loader to use the appropriate method for booting Windows.
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