John Drescher wrote: > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 8:56 AM, ss26 <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:] > It is a good idea because very few applications make use of rarely > used (and not needed) ntfs features to make them work. Thanks John. It seems you are right. No need to search for examples: see the link in my first post ^ about imagex and its inability to backup ntfs extended attributes under native (!) enironment (waik). But i restored system images many times with (g)imagex and haven't noticed any broken thing (functionality) in windows xp itself or installed apps.