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:

http://anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3691


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