OT -- I need Computer Help

I worked for Microsoft while they were developing NT 4.0. They required us to upgrade our systems every time they had a "safe, approved" build. How many times do you think I did that? Heh, how many times do you think I wound up with another developer in my office, trying to figure out what had gone wrong with their "safe" build?

Norton Ghost 2003 is capable of copying NTFS partitions. It operates from a DOS shell. I haven't tried the newest version. That would be like buying a TJ or other coil-springed vehicle. ;^) Norton developers had access to Microsoft source code, but reverse engineering the NT install program is, as everyone knows, a violation of the product license. An NTFS partition copied with Norton Ghost may not boot, if the destination partition is a different size, probably smaller than the source. I think that this has something to do with the paging file.

When I was working for them, over ten years ago, I heard that one of the Windows developers had a driver that was capable of mounting NTFS volumes from inside of Windows. The NT program managers got real hot under the collar when they found out that it ignored security descriptors. This was the same guy that wrote FAT32 in his spare time, after being told not to. There is nothing miraculous about file systems.

Earle