On 03/11/2011 12:27 PM, Kyle wrote:
> On 10/25/2011 7:51 AM, Invisible wrote:
>> Take the company's mission-critical server. Take a disk image of the OS
>> partition. Boot from a Linux live CD. Reformat the system partition.
>> Restore the system partition from the image file, and pay to God
>> almighty that it actually boots up again.
>
> Why would you do such a thing to begin with?

The server is persistently experiencing NTFS corruption errors, and I 
just can't get rid of them. Which is strange, because if I restore the 
image file to a virtual machine, it runs completely without issue...

You won't be surprised to learn that the elaborate procedure above 
utterly failed to fix the problem. But hey, it was worth a shot.

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