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Ghosting a NTFS volume to a FAT32 drive?


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leonid



Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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PostPosted: 08/20/07 - 07:32    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi there. Well, I am about to do this. I have both Windows XP and Windows 98. I use NTFS file system for XP and FAT32 for Windows 98. I want to make a back up copy of the entire Windows XP, but I don’t know what will happen if Image file becomes larger than 4 gigs, which is the limit for the FAT32. I need some assistance here. Thanks in advance.
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roberto



Joined: 25 Mar 2005
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PostPosted: 09/24/07 - 21:29    Post subject: Reply with quote

It all depends how many programs you have installed on your system. If you use maximum compression level, than it might happen that Ghost will shrink the image archive more than a 50%, which means, if you do have 10 ntfs partition and about 2 gigs of free space, go ahead freely. Otherwise, Windows won’t allow you to store this file on the file system. Then try with multiply archive option.
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