Cloning NTFS & FAT32

For the Windows XP Pro computer, Drive C will be NTFS. Drive D will be FAT32.

Cloning will overwrite anything on a drive. I know I can clone an NTFS drive
to/from an NTFS drive and a FAT32 drive to/from a FAT32 drive.

Can I clone an NTFS drive to/from a FAT32 drive or must the FAT32 backup
drive first be formatted at NTFS? Backup hard drives are FAT32. If any of the
backup hard drives need to be NTFS, please tell me.

YES/NO - Back up Drive C (NTFS) on NTFS PC to a FAT32 backup drive.
YES/NO - Restore Drive C (NTFS) on NTFS PC from a FAT32 backup drive.
YES/NO - Back up Drive D (FAT32) on NTFS PC to a FAT32 backup drive.
YES/NO - Restore Drive D (FAT32) on NTFS PC from a FAT32 backup drive.
YES/NO - Restoring a corrupt XP installation from a cloned XP backup drive
will prompt XP to reactivate? Assume that none of the hardware has changed.

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SYSTEM: Windows Me, IE 5.5, 384MB SDRAM PC100/133, DFI PA61 PII Mainboard,
Katmai 550MHz Pentium III CPU, Dial-up & DSL Modems. Ethernet Network
connected to Win95a, Win98SE, and WinMe machines.

Be carefull with disk managing. To try some cloning use Partition Magic
trial edition. As read the disk manuals, can be possible some mixture
partition, but you should try without important data-.

If your clone tool overwrites everything on the drive then the destination
file system wouldn't matter, you'll get whatever was on the source drive.
If you are going to clone NTFS drives, make sure your clone tool is NTFS
aware since NTFS contains unique device ids.


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Ken Wickes [MSFT]
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.


"SeaSpeeder" wrote in message
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For the Windows XP Pro computer, Drive C will be NTFS. Drive D will be
FAT32.

Cloning will overwrite anything on a drive. I know I can clone an NTFS
drive
to/from an NTFS drive and a FAT32 drive to/from a FAT32 drive.

Can I clone an NTFS drive to/from a FAT32 drive or must the FAT32 backup
drive first be formatted at NTFS? Backup hard drives are FAT32. If any of
the
backup hard drives need to be NTFS, please tell me.

YES/NO - Back up Drive C (NTFS) on NTFS PC to a FAT32 backup drive.
YES/NO - Restore Drive C (NTFS) on NTFS PC from a FAT32 backup drive.
YES/NO - Back up Drive D (FAT32) on NTFS PC to a FAT32 backup drive.
YES/NO - Restore Drive D (FAT32) on NTFS PC from a FAT32 backup drive.
YES/NO - Restoring a corrupt XP installation from a cloned XP backup drive
will prompt XP to reactivate? Assume that none of the hardware has
changed.

--
SYSTEM: Windows Me, IE 5.5, 384MB SDRAM PC100/133, DFI PA61 PII Mainboard,
Katmai 550MHz Pentium III CPU, Dial-up & DSL Modems. Ethernet Network
connected to Win95a, Win98SE, and WinMe machines.