Paul Mantz wrote:

> A cursory glance at ntfsclone's man page (available at 
> http://man.linux-ntfs.org/ntfsclone.8.html) states that ntfsclone deals 
> exclusively with the filesystem, and not with the bootloader at all.  If 
> you were trying this on a brand new drive in the case of a hard drive 
> failure, you'd be dead in the water til you wrote to the bootloader.

yes you're right, I forgott to mention, that I make a backup of the MBR 
as well using:

    dd if=/dev/XXX of=mbr.backup bs=512 count=1

Thanks for mentioning.

> A working strategy would be to do a fresh install (from a prepared 
> image, preferably) and restore the files via tarball (or the Knoppix 
> liveCD if you don't have GNU util capabilites on the machine).

This is what I suggested.

- Kurt

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