On 5/3/05, Jonathan Hutchins [email protected] wrote:
On Mon, May 2, 2005 9:15 am, Garrett Goebel said:
If there's an OSS version of Ghost that works on NTFS partitions without
requiring
extensive reading and tweaking, please let me know.
Some versions of PartImage will work with NTFS.
The problem is that MS has played around with NTFS, varying the features and implementation among different releases. Standard, straight-forward NT4 NTFS works fine with the native Linux drivers, but some of the more obscure implementations (upgrades on Win9x-XP installs?) can have problems when writing within the NTFS partition. This shouldn't be an issue for an Image program, but then again, it's Microsoft.
DriveImage worked very well, so well that as pointed out before, Symantec bought it and dropped their Partition Magic in favor of it.
Funny how those proprietary OS's so often require proprietary $$$ backup
solutions.
It's called "lock-in", and it's what proprietary is all about.
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