On Saturday 02 February 2002 11:44 am, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 07:40:49PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > > > > > Is it possible to restore a windows partition from tar? > > > > > > Not quite. I think he wants to know if he can use the standard GNU > > > tools to do a backup of his or his other's Windows installation and so > > > save $$$ on buying Norton Ghost. > > > > okay. well then: > > ...usefull commands snipped > > > no need for tar. you'd want tar if you want to save the data on the > > partition rather than imaging the partition. > > be ware, a Windows install writes bits and peaces at specific places on > the disk and expects to find those at those places. Unfortunately some > of those places are remembered as disk addresses rather then as file/dir > names. So simply untarring a previous installed Windows won't do, atleast > that's what I understood of it. >
i've worked around that in the past by defragmenting the windon't partition.
