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Date:	Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:19:59 +0100
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Subject:	NTFS problem with very large files on Vista and Win2008 (ddrescue)
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Just for Info: Writing very large files to NTFS may fail on Vista and 
Windows Server 2008:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957065

This may be the case if ddrescue is used on Cygwin to create an image 
file of a large disk.

Here a problem report from the ddrescue mailing list:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ddrescue/2009-03/msg00005.html

-- 
Christian Franke


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