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

--- Vaughn Treude <vltreude@deru.com> wrote:
>
> 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.)
>

I used to buy WD, and about every 6 months they would just fail totally and
without warning. I started buying maxtor and haven't had one fail yet. They
have been replaced as they got too small, but no problems at all. I don't
know anything about the recovery partition, so can't help there.



        
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