backing up a whole hard disk

[Derek Martin]

On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 02:46:58PM -0400, 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.

The native NTFS driver should handle read-only access just fine.  If
you need write access too, you could always use Captive:

  http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/

If you have Windows native drivers available (e.g. copied from your
original Windows partition, in the case of a full system restore),
you're golden. Not sure what the status of Captive's own replacements
is...  But it may be possible to use Captive now without MS drivers.

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