Norton Ghost question

[cyberdad]

I am planning on upgrading my hard drive. I read on one of these forums about Norton Ghost. In researching, it sounds good. One question that I did not entirely understand. If I backup my present FAT32 files, can I partition the new drive in NTFS and I will be able to reinstall my FAT32 backups into the NTFS. Doesn't sound likely, but the tutorial makes it sound like I can. But I don't know.

 

[JackBurton]

It doesn't work like that. Ghost puts back EXACTLY what it took off, file system and all.

 

[Dahak]

no, when you back up a partition it will back it up in what ever current file system its is there now. So when it is backed up in fat32 it will restore into fat32.

Or what you could do is back it up, create an ntfs partition if thats what you want, and uses ghost explorer to open the image file and restore the files in that manner

Dahak

 

[cyberdad]

Thanks, One other question. I am going from 40 GB to 120GB. I have a C, D, and E partition. I suppose I can make larger partitions of each drive can"t I? I don't know much about this. Do I re-install and then make the drives larger. If so, how. Kind of a Noob here.

 

[SUOrangeman]

Ghost will let you enlarge the destination partition ... at least the later versions do (anything within the last two years or so).

-SUO