On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@(protected):
> On Wed, 07 May 2008 17:16:01 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote:
>
> > >> Why not put ext* or reiserfs or whatever on such a drive?
> > >
> > > Because you need to access it from Windows too?
> >
> > To a backup device? Why?
>
> Don't Windows users need to backup?
>
>
> --
> Neil Bothwick

Funny you should bring this up. Last week I was trying to get Gentoo
onto my laptop but it wasn't stable. Problems in the kernel that
aren't fixed earlier than 2.6.25 so I did a 'stage4' backup to save my
work. It now resides on a USB disk.

The machine itself had seemed somewhat unstable under Windows.
Possibly it was the memory I bought from Crucial a couple of months
ago. They've so I've just today done a complete restore of Win Vista
from the HP Recovery Disk. (This is the firs full restore. In the
middle I tried to get XP on the machine but there aren't any XP
drivers for some of the hardware in the system, etc., so I gave up.)
Anyway, I now have a Win Vista Home Premium install, clean when it
finishes virus scan.

I'm thinking I might as well treat data like data and just back up the
windows partition just like I back up the Gentoo partitions, using
Stage4 to do that and creating something I can reinstall using Gentoo
quite easily.

The only risky portion might be the quality of a Linux-based NTFS
reinstall from the tar file but it seems I have little to lose by
doing this.

Any comments?

- Mark
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