BdN3504 Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 I am on the brink of moving a winxp machine into a new windows 7 environment using the xpmode utility of 7. For this purpose i wanted to use a linux live distro to dd the contents of the old disk to the new machine. My problem now is, that the live distro cannot access the filesystem of the hd in the windows 7 machine. I thought about this and came to the conclusion that the file system which is used by windows 7 is not compatible with that distro. So i began to search for the file system used by 7 but only read it uses ntfs. There must be something new or different to this fs, because the distro works fine when accessing data of windows xp harddisks, which are also ntfs formatted. I could not make out which version of ntfs windows 7 uses. is it different to the fs used by xp? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 Yes, Windows 7 uses NTFS by default. I think that it is possible to install it on a FAT32, but your live CD should definately be able to read this file system. Of course there are a couple ways that Windows 7 can lock down its NTFS. One if NTFS permissions, they would have to have been changed from their defaults. Also EFS (Encrypting File System) or BitLocker or using the Trusted Platform Module. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BdN3504 Posted February 3, 2010 Author Share Posted February 3, 2010 OK, thanks. So you say windows 7 uses ntfs but you don't know which version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrJinje Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 Have you checked here already ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 The filesystem itself is the same (3.1) for XP/2003, Vista/2008, and Win7/2008R2, but the ntfs.sys driver itself and the kernel's I/O management have added changes and tweaks for things like better SSD support, Transactional Filesystem operations, self-healing, debugging extensions, etc. You can actually see the NTFS version of a volume using fsutil:fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo <drive letter>:For example, on my Win7 box:fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo C:NTFS Volume Serial Number : 0xf6accbccaccb8599Version : 3.1Number Sectors : 0x000000003a3557ffTotal Clusters : 0x000000000746aaffFree Clusters : 0x000000000616a236Total Reserved : 0x00000000000007e0Bytes Per Sector : 512Bytes Per Cluster : 4096Bytes Per FileRecord Segment : 1024Clusters Per FileRecord Segment : 0Mft Valid Data Length : 0x0000000007bc0000Mft Start Lcn : 0x00000000000c0000Mft2 Start Lcn : 0x0000000000000002Mft Zone Start : 0x0000000003b04920Mft Zone End : 0x0000000003b11140RM Identifier: CEF11C5E-77FE-11DE-85EE-B7DA22FC12FB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinifera Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 doubt they will ever make improved version of NTFSmaybe when WinFS becomes finished to attach itself onto NTFS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 There really isn't a huge need for a better FS, honestly. NTFS already does all of the things the actual filesystem needs to do, although improvements to things that sit on top of it like Windows Search are always welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BdN3504 Posted February 4, 2010 Author Share Posted February 4, 2010 Thank you for the heads up. I'll check that command out. Very nice of you to help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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