Hugh Sasse wrote:
I want to recover as much of the data I wrote to the old system onto
a portable drive (which being new is big, I forget how big now but of
the order of 200GB), and I want to put the files somewhere on my as yet
unbuilt new machine, which will probably be running Vista dual boot
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Sylvain RICHARD wrote:
> Hugh Sasse wrote
> >
> > Can it extract individual files from the backup? I don't want to copy
> > old Windows System files on to the new machine when it appears.
> >
> Ahah!
>
> Finally, you tell us about what you intended to do in the first pla
Hugh Sasse wrote
Can it extract individual files from the backup? I don't want to copy
old Windows System files on to the new machine when it appears.
Ahah!
Finally, you tell us about what you intended to do in the first place!
Could you be more specific, please?
Sylvain RICHARD
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Hugh Sasse wrote:
> Great, thanks. The last time I tried to use native backup on it, it was
> from the disk->properties->tools, and it only allowed me to backup to ...
> floppy disk. For a 70GB drive that was marvellous. Now I know what to
> look for.
That's the same ntbackup. There is a box
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Hugh Sasse wrote:
>
> > Because it won't access things either? I can live without ntuser.dat
> > but its knowing what the others are and why they fail that is part of
> > the problem.
>
> It will be of no use because it still won't be able to access f
Hugh Sasse wrote:
> Because it won't access things either? I can live without ntuser.dat
> but its knowing what the others are and why they fail that is part of
> the problem.
It will be of no use because it still won't be able to access files that
are opened with sharing disallowed.
> So I'd n
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Hugh Sasse wrote:
>
> > Trying to copy a windows XP NTFS drive to a big disk using cygwin tools
> > I encounter inaccessible files such as ntusers.dat. tar is not
>
> ntuser.dat is the filename of the per-user registry hive
> (HKEY_CURRENT_USER). It
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Sylvain RICHARD wrote:
> Hugh Sasse wrote:
> > Trying to copy a windows XP NTFS drive to a big disk using cygwin tools
> > I encounter inaccessible files such as ntusers.dat. tar is not
> > particularly verbose about why things fail so I wrote something in
> > Ruby, but I onl
Hugh Sasse wrote:
> Trying to copy a windows XP NTFS drive to a big disk using cygwin tools
> I encounter inaccessible files such as ntusers.dat. tar is not
ntuser.dat is the filename of the per-user registry hive
(HKEY_CURRENT_USER). It is opened by the system in exclusive mode, so
it cannot b
Hugh Sasse wrote:
Trying to copy a windows XP NTFS drive to a big disk using cygwin tools
I encounter inaccessible files such as ntusers.dat. tar is not
particularly verbose about why things fail so I wrote something in
Ruby, but I only got about 70% of the contents of the disk across.
I suspect
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