OT: What FS is the Windows XP recovery partition?

[Vaughn Treude]

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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