OT: What FS is the Windows XP recovery partition?

[Kenneth]

--- "Eric \"Shubes\"" <plug at shubes.net> wrote:

> 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.)
> 

I'm not sure I would try to copy everything with partition table (although as
far as I know, as long as the new disk is larger it might work.)  I would
create partitions on the destination drive, then use dd on each one, then
expand partitions if needed.


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