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Re: Really big files?


I recall at least one recent version with WinXP support, so I'd expect that it does support NTFS.

Elliott Wilcoxon

Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote:

From: Brian Dessent
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 10:19 PM


Greg Freemyer wrote:

=== Session Log
$ mount -f -b //./physicaldrive2 /dev/todds

Just a completely random guess here: Is 'physicaldrive2' an active system drive? IIRC there are some parts of windows that cannot be read by anything but the kernel itself, such as the SAM database (or something along those lines.) If this is the case then you'd have to do the image when the partition is not active. I don't know how or if tools like Ghost get around this.

Brian


Minimal info addition:
 Symantec's ghost.exe is a AFAIK DOS application, with all the
implications - don't know more about it (does it handle NTFS?).
PowerQuest's "ghost" (i.e. Drive Image) does some 'magic' by booting a
temporary disk image - for creating the backup (this disk image can be
rebuilt using the installed software. Does understand NTFS and at least
'knows about' Linux).


/Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59+16.37'N, 17+12.60'E


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