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

On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 08:06, Paul Dickson wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 20:09:10 -0700, Vaughn Treude wrote:
>
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > 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?
>
> On my Dell notebook, I can mount it as vfat (mount figured out the type
> by itself).
>

>     -Paul

I will try mounting the partition with a newer version of Knoppix -
though 3.3 should have also been able to recognize it, if it was vfat.
As for cloning the disks, the suggestions for using dd were quite
helpful. I found a step-by-step guide to using Linux to clone a Windows
XP drive at www.nilbus.com/linux/disk-copy.php. I will report back with
the results when I try again later this week.

Vaughn

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