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Subject: backing up a whole hard disk
From: gboyce at badbelly.com (Gregory Boyce)
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 14:46:58 -0400 (EDT)
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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.

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