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.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com


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