Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?
Situation: My daughter works for a bank and must use Microsoft to work
at home. Yesterday the system would not boot - no safe mode, no
nothing, just return to loading bios.
The machine is an HP desktop which came preloaded with Windows XP
Professional. As instructed we made a recovery disk and some backup
files. I now find the recovery disk will only wipe the hard drive clean
and reinstall XP. The backup files are a year out of date.
At the time she bought the machine I installed a second hard drive,
installed Lenny and configured mbr for dual boot.
Yesterday I edited fstab to include a mount point for the Windows
primary partition setting the file type to auto and was able to mount
the partition and read files.
Hoping to save the recent information I tried rsync -vr /c /c_bkup.
This didn't work, many messages about incorrect nodes.
Is there any chance of recovering usable files before we wipe out her
hard drive?
Tom
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