Re: OT: What FS is the Windows XP recovery partition?

> 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.
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