OT OS issue

[Oren Beck]

On 5/3/05, Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins at tarcanfel.org> 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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