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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