Is Vista NTFS Format/File Structure Compatible With Previous Versi

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I've previously used Powerquest Drive Image 5 to back up (or move between
disks) images of my C: drive partition. Despite the age of this version, its
worked flawlessly with Windows XP, and even recognises the on-board RAID
controller on my motherboard and backs up XP to a RAID 1 array on my PC. Just
to be clear, I've been booting from the Drive Image CD-ROM - which runs its
own version of DOS and executes the program from there (so I've never needed
to install it into Windows itself).


However, it doesn't work on the old hard disks I'm using as Vista test beds.
I've installed the 32 bit and 64 bit versions on seperate old disks, deleting
the old partitions and formatting each one from the appropriate Vista DVD.
Vista installed OK, and is running without any file errors - so I believe
that each install went OK. However, Drive Image reports errors when it checks
the drives, offer to "correct" them (and when I allowed it to do this once
ended up with an unbootable Vista disk).

Short version of the question - will we need to replace utilities like these
with versions that work with Vista. If so, is there a list of compatable
versions?
 
Most backup software and most software in general will need to have Vista
releases. Have you looke at the native backup tool in Vista?
 
I have posted here a few weeks ago that Partition Magic 8.01 does not see
the Vista partition when you boot from the PM Floppies. An error is thrown
up that the partition is corrupted and do you want to correct. If you say
yes, you lose every partition on that hard drive.

If you deny the repair, PM opens and says that the drive is corrupted. No
partitions can be seen. Error 105 is displayed. Yet, you can reboot into
Vista and access every partition on the drive.

I found out the hard way NOT to allow the repair.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
Ghost 7 allows a flawless clone of the drives providing it recognises the
board. AMD based OK, SATA, IDE, RAID 0,1 & 5; but certain Intel chipsets I
believe have issues, Uhmmm. I've used Ghosts own PC-DOS but have on
occasions had to use Win-Me DOS start-up disc as an OS for it to find and
back-up and restore images from drive to drive. Note that the entire system
appears to be 'mapped' as my new clone disc required re-activation for
Vista....
 
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