I need to backup a HDD to CD so that I can reformat it, and then put the
files back. After the reformat I could boot from floppy and copy the
files back to the HD, but that would corrupt the installation due to the
lack of long filename support.

Anyone know of a way to boot with long filename support?


Headless

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Headless <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I need to backup a HDD to CD so that I can reformat
> it, and then put the files back. After the reformat I
> could boot from floppy and copy the files back to the HD,

You could, but that wont necessarily make it bootable.

> but that would corrupt the installation
> due to the lack of long filename support.

> Anyone know of a way to boot with long filename support?

Any real backup or imaging app has long file name support.

Headless <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> I need to backup a HDD to CD so that I can reformat it, and then
> put the files back. After the reformat I could boot from floppy
> and copy the files back to the HD, but that would corrupt the
> installation due to the lack of long filename support.
>
> Anyone know of a way to boot with long filename support?

Use PE Builder from http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ and create a product
very close to Windows PE. Windows PE allows you to boot a minimal
Windows XP subsystem from a CD-R. You'll need a copy of Windows XP SP1
slipstreamed to make this. Works on NTFS and FAT16/32 filesystems.

DOSLFN at http://stealth.kirenet.com/~aleinss/files/doslfn.zip is a TSR
that will give you long name support. This will only work on FAT16/32
file systems.

Adam