OT: What FS is the Windows XP recovery partition?

[Kevin Brown]

> 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.