OT: What FS is the Windows XP recovery partition?

[Vaughn Treude]

On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 20:08, Kevin Brown 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.

D'oh!  I'd forgotten about dd, as I usually use rsync for backups.  But
I'm still at a loss to know how to configure that recovery partition. 
And the Dragon was right, I think, as I came across many Google items
chastising Compaq for doing the recovery partition thing in lieu of the
CD's.  But my problem is that this thing _WON'T_ boot without that
recovery partition, for whatever reason, as I've already tried that.  (A
couple years back the drive failed, and my sister didn't know at first
that it was still under warranty, so after my disk-cloning attempt
failed, she sent it back to HP, who replaced it.  HP's 12-month warranty
was a nice surprise, and their phone service people were helpful, but
otherwise I'm pretty disappointed in them.  The WD drives they use
appear to be pretty crappy these days, I'm going to avoid that brand
from now on.)

Vaughn

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