zpaqfranz 63.5

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## 🚀 Release Notes — NTFS Partition Image Support (VHD Mode)
Added

Support for NTFS partition imaging with VHD restoration

You can now create NTFS partition images and restore them directly as VHD files, mountable from Windows.



Usage Example
To back up your C: drive (or any NTFS partition):
zpaqfranz a z:\backup.zpaq C: -image -vhd
Just add -vhd to the usual -image command (* no vss for now, next release...)
The process stores a special backward-compatible format, split into two files:
image_C.fhd
image_C.header

Restoration
To extract and restore as a mountable VHD file:
zpaqfranz x z:\backup.zpaq -vhd

This will generate
image_C.vhd

Notes on Storage and Efficiency

The resulting .vhd file is not as compact as the zpaqfranz's NTFS-specific image format (-image -ntfs).
However, it does not require double the disk space for restoration (unlike the ntfs command).
The output file size corresponds roughly to the actual used space on the original partition.

Example:

A 256 GB NTFS partition with 100 GB of used data will produce a .vhd file of about 100 GB.
Mounting and Extraction
The generated .vhd can be mounted or opened using:

Windows Disk Management
FTK Imager
OSFMount
Or directly opened with 7-Zip to extract files.

Experimental Feature
This feature is still experimental — a large on-screen warning will appear.

It has not been fully tested yet.

Future versions will include auto-mount support and further refinements.
Integrity Check
To verify that two directories (e.g., G:\data and C:\data) are identical —

for instance, after mounting your .vhd as G: — run:
zpaqfranz sum g:\data -xxh3 -ssd -summary
zpaqfranz sum c:\data -xxh3 -ssd -summary

Tip: Use the -ssd flag only for solid-state drives.
Avoid it on traditional spinning disks.
Tip: extracting huge file on NTFS partition, use -sparse to speed up (a lot)

View the full release notes at https://github.com/fcorbelli/zpaqfranz/releases/tag/63.5.

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