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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  The backup files are a year out of date.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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