OT: What FS is the Windows XP recovery partition?

[Kenneth]

--- Kevin Brown <kevin_brown at qwest.net> wrote:

> >>>>My sister's HP has been sending out ominous "drive about to fail"
> >>>>messages.  She asked me to help replace her drive.  I did what I
> >>>>normally do:  after adding the new drive, I booted the system in
> Knoppix
> >>>>to try to do the copy.  The problem was the 5 GB "recovery" partition
> at
> >>>>the beginning of the disk.  Knoppix could not recognize this.  The same
> >>>>held true for Seagate's setup utility, which boots with DR-DOS (the
> >>>>replacement drive is a Seagate.)  Does anybody know what kind of file
> >>>>system the Evil Empire uses for this partition?  Secondly, is it now
> >>>>safe to use Linux to copy NTFS files?  My version of Knoppix is 3.3 and
> >>>>I've since downloaded 4.0, but I don't want to drive back to my
> sister's
> >>>>house unprepared.  Is there a good Linux tool to do this?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Most likely that is either a norton ghost image or a drive image image 
> >>>at the head of the drive.  As for copying NTFS... well I would think a 
> >>>dd image of the drive would survive without issues, then use an NTFS 
> >>>safe application like PQMagic to expand the NTFS drive to fill the 
> >>>remainder of the new volume.
> 
> >>I'll second that.
> >>
> >>dd just copies whatever's there, so I'd expect that it would copy the 
> >>recovery partition and the NTFS partition just fine. just "dd 
> >>if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=1k" to copy the whole drive (after booting a 
> >>live CD, with no partitions on the drives mounted). Be sure to use the 
> >>appropriate designations for the drives as you have them installed.
> >>
> >>(I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong.)
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > I'm not sure I would try to copy everything with partition table
> (although as
> > far as I know, as long as the new disk is larger it might work.)  I would
> > create partitions on the destination drive, then use dd on each one, then
> > expand partitions if needed.
> 
> The problem with that is that the NTFS partitions might not take too 
> kindly to being in a space larger than they say they should be.  Fat and 
> Fat32 might not be a problem though...

I didn't think it mattered, but I haven't done much mucking about with
partitions and copying in this way, so perhaps I should bow out of this
discussion :)


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