How do I back up my Windows partition from an Ubuntu live CD?

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Published on 2012-09-22T17:02:44Z Indexed on 2012/09/22 21:40 UTC
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My Windows partition (C:) is corrupt. I'm booting up from an Ubuntu live CD and trying to copy all the files from C: to my external drive, but the system expands all of the links, producing a projected copy size of 1.8TB (my external drive is just 1TB, and the data in c: is around 700MB).

Then I looked at dd and other backup utilities. Anything I looked into, I couldn't figure out whether or not the image would be readable in Windows through any other app.

Has anyone else tried to back up data from a corrupted Windows installation using Ubuntu?

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