For a long time I have used tar to back up windows XP directories
and restore them from Linux. Until recently, this did not work with
NTFS partitions, but now it does. You can mount them rw in Linux,
and then they are the same as any other partitions.
When installing ubuntu on a windows vista system on a second disk,
ubuntu asked me if I wanted to mount the ntfs partition rw, so I said yes.
The reason I was installing ubuntu was because the user had gotten a virus
and it wouldn't start any more.
Ubuntu imported all of his user files and directories, browser settings,
bookmarks, and all the other stuff, copying them onto the sdecond disk.
Then finally, it said I had a windows partition already, and did I maybe
want to boot it too? I chose yes.
Then, running ubuntu, I asked the user when the problem started, and I
looked for files whose dates were around that time.
I found a bunch of files with AVG and variations in the name with the
offending range of dates. He said he had downloaded AVG a long time ago
for a free antivrus program.
Well, the virus was so clever it replaced the real AVG files with its
own, so instead of starting the real avg on boot, it started the virus.
It was a simple matter to locate all files names in the whole windows
system having avg somewhere and delete them all via rm from ubuntu
on the ntfs partition.
Rebooting windows then came up normally, with no virus.
Of course, avg was gone.
There seems to be no problem reading and writing files on a windows
filesystem any more.
Lex
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