[Linux-NTFS-User] Restoring a Windows XP Partition

[Avuton O. <av...@gm...>]

Hello,

For some time now, I've been doing a backup to a XFS partition (using
rsync snapshots) from an NTFS/Windows XP partition that I need often
backups of. A few days ago I had a hard drive loss, so I went to
restore, here are the steps I used:

Got a new hard drive in and:
1) cfdisk /dev/hda (Use '07' for the type, set boot flag)
2) mkfs.ntfs /dev/hda1
3) (mounted with ntfs-3g)
4) Restored the files from my XFS backup partition
5) Setup grub as it is on the Windows machine

After I reboot, I select the Windows partition in grub exactly as it
was also restored and it tells me something went wrong and I need to
insert a system disk (sorry, I didn't write down the complete error
message).

Luckily for me, the drive wasn't completely trashed so I got the old
hard drive and:
1) ntfsclone'd the old drive onto the new one
2) Used ntfsresize

This worked perfectly. This also means I need to either figure out
what went wrong the first time, or change my backup method to a full
backup rather than a incremental backup.

Did I do something (obviously) wrong when trying to restore from my
XFS partition, or is this simply not supported yet? Insight?

Thanks,
-- 
avuton
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