On 11/29/2009 10:55 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > Bob Weber wrote: > >> >>> If I am mistaken, I would be interested in knowing what part of an NTFS is >>> not >>> copyable by just using ntfsclone (and any sources for additional info >>> would be most helpful.) >>> >>> >> ntfsclone apparently copies the entire file system correctly since I >> assume that it overwrote all file system data after the beginning of the >> C: partition that was copied from my dd boot image of the first 50 megs >> of the disk. I have used ntfsresize successfully many times to re-size >> ntfs file systems to new disk partition sizes and fdisk to resize >> partitions on destination disks that are larger than the image I was >> cloning from. So these programs know what they are doing when copying >> or modifying a ntfs file system or partition table. My "good enough for >> government work" way of solving the no boot problem seems awkward but it >> has worked for me. I mainly use Linux, so these tools have allowed me >> to clone and save images of Window system without having to use Windows >> and buy propriety programs. I use backuppc to daily backup the user data. >> > Clonezilla does a good job of cloning windows systems as long as the target as > the same size or larger than the source, so you could probably look through > its > scripts to see what it uses besides ntfsclone. > > add this to the list of possible Windows imaging issues:
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