Trying to copy a windows XP NTFS drive to a big disk using cygwin tools I encounter inaccessible files such as ntusers.dat. tar is not particularly verbose about why things fail so I wrote something in Ruby, but I only got about 70% of the contents of the disk across. I suspect this is a common problem, but don't know how to frame it correctly to extract something useful from Google. The setup in question only has the one PC so things like rsync are out. Windows keeps some things in use, but I don't know what. Can anyone point me at the specific thing I should be reading, or suggest anything? If you mail me off list then, if there is interest I will summarize to the list. Thank you.
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