[newbie] untarring a backup of windows partition - permission with fat32

[revolt]

 I want to backup my boss's fresh install of XP to a gzip (on a 
mandrake partition) on his dell, then be able to "ghost" his XP back 
onto the fat32 partition. I have been experimenting in preparation for 
this and have gotten some errors that I believe may be related to fat32 
not having any permissions system (Cannot utime: Operation not 
permitted), yet the files are all extracted (apparently) correctly. I 
know people on the list have suggested using this method before. Could 
someone provide more explicit instructions for me? TIA


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