[OLUG] win backup bootable

Jon Keene jkeene at cse.unl.edu
Tue Apr 25 13:28:15 UTC 2000


It sounds like the windows files are physically residing on a
linux partition, rather than the windows partition.  IOW, If /mnt/win
is unmounted, any files that you see within /mnt/win _must_ belong
to a linux partition rooted at either / or /mnt.

Jon

On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, mesc wrote:

> I also noticed that when my windoze partition is mounted (in linux)
> /mnt/win is empty but when my windoze partiton is unmounted /mnt/win shows
> all my windoze directories and files.Could that be  because windoze needs to
> mount it too to see it?If so is there a way to do that?I'm hoping if I can
> mount the windoze partition and see all my files in/mnt/win windoze may
> boot for me.
> 
>             Gary Martin.
> 
> 
> mesc wrote:
> 
> > After compressing my windoze directory with bzip2 then deleting my win
> > directory from /mnt I decompressed the bzip2 file and untarred the
> > resulting tar file and everything is back like it was when windoze was
> > ok,but windows won't boot...I just get a system disk error..I went into
> > cfdisk and made that partition bootable but still no luck.Any ideas?
> >
> >                 Thank you,Gary Martin.
> >
> > P.S. In case anyone's wondering I'm trying to back up my windows
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