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From: Ian J. <ia...@da...> - 2003-04-10 19:59:10
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Szakacsits Szabolcs writes ("Re: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Implementing ntfsimage"):
> If the boot sector gets damaged [quite often can happen, see many Microsoft
> KB's] you have a harder time to boot Windows. I can imagine Microsoft's
> Restore/Recovery or whatever it's called solution relies on it when
> people can not boot. It's not there without a reason.
Hrm.
> BTW, do you know that sometimes it even can not be done due to a Linux
> kernel bug? IMHO it's fixed in 2.5 but not earlier. For more see 'man
> mkntfs' BUGS section.
Even worse.
So, perhaps I should have ntfsimage generate an image not containing
the spare boot sector, but with the `dirty' bit set, so that NT will
rewrite the spare ? (I also need to set the image size to one cluster
larger, to make sure that there will be space for the spare.)
Ian.
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