RE: NTFS MFT protection

2009-01-24 Thread Benjamin Zachary - Lists
BartPE does have an MFT copier/restorer tool. Ubcd4win.com to get you going quickly. I don't recall the tool, but I tried using it recently after I accidentally ghosted a drive the wrong way and wiped out a drive with an empty one ;) -Original Message- From: Fred Sawyer [mailto:fr...@sunb

RE: NTFS MFT protection

2009-01-19 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Unless your data on this volume is 100% static, that's not going to help. The moment you touch that filesystem, it changes it. No backup of the mft would ever be valid at any point in the future... As Ken pointed out, you need to protect the contents of the filesystem, not of some aspect of the u

RE: NTFS MFT protection

2009-01-19 Thread Ken Schaefer
You can either using an imaging tool to image the disk. Or you can use a regular backup tool (e.g. Windows Backup) Cheers Ken -Original Message- From: Fred Sawyer [mailto:fr...@sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Tuesday, 20 January 2009 9:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: NTFS MFT prot