Request for assistance, somewhat off topic

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

I have used tar in the past to backup Windows partitions with zero 
problems. I have also restored a Windows partition from a tar archive, 
again with no problems.
There is one issue when restoring a Windows file system (FAT16, FAT32...). 
Once that partition is restored, you need to run the sys utility on it so 
it will be bootable. I  keep a DOS rescue for any system I back up like 
that.
Mark Glassberg wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 03:29:15PM -0500, Mark J. Dulcey wrote:
> > Unless you have already reformatted the laptop, the long names should still
>  
> > be intact there.
> 
> Of course, I did reformat.  For future reference, are the hidden files
> visible to linux if the system is mounted as fat?  If so, how could I
> have used tar to capture them?
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