another "tar" question - backup XP

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If your win partition is /dev/hda3

dd if=/dev/hda3 of=WinXP.img

thats all their is to it.. it'll read every byte if /dev/hda3 and write it out 
to WinXP.img


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> Mick Mearns (off_by_1 at yahoo.com) composed today:

> Hello list;
>  I would like to know how to zip/bzip2/tar.gz etc my Windows XP
> partition.
>
> I rarely use XP, when I last did - I realized what a PITA it was to
> get current.
> (fdisk/format/w98se/upgrade to XP/load drivers/load SP1/patch/load
> progs)
>
> So I would like to make an iso (while I still have space), and burn it
> to DVD.
>
> I know that Linux file permissions are not possible on vfat, but how do
> I save the vfat file attributes? hid/sys/archive
>
> Is there a script out there to do this?
>
> Thanks
>   Mick M.
>
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