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

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.
> ---------------------------------------------------

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.)

-- 
-Eric 'shubes'
"There is no such thing as the People;
  it is a collectivist myth.
  There are only individual citizens
  with individual wills
  and individual purposes."
-William E. Simon (1927-2000),
     Secretary of the Treasury (1974-1977)
  "A Time For Truth" (1978), pg. 237

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