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17627	2001-08-25 10:00:00	Help!!! I am using Ghost 2001 with Win2000 professional and find that although the manual does not offer any warning, you can't image NTFS partitions using a DOS boot disk (Fairly logical really but hindsight is always very clear). I have two 20GB drives partitioned as C & E and D & F. The D (data) partition is FAT32 but the rest are NTFS. I now intend to convert C, E & F to FAT32 and with E & F currently empty they won't present a problem but C is a different matter. What I want to do is image the OS & programs on C to one of the other partitions then reformat C as FAT32 and restore from the image but will this work? I have 'RTFM' three times from cover to cover and spent hours searching the Symantec knowledge base but can't find the answer. All I can find is a couple of obscure references to sector by sector copies under some circumstances. Does anybody know if it is possible to make a file-by- file image of an NTFS partition using a DOS boot disk and GhostPE, and if it is, will that image produce a bootable C drive after conversion of the original NTFS partition to FAT32 and restoration of the OS & Program data from the image? The alternative is a full reload of OS and Programs which just doesn't bear thinking about! Jack C	Guest (0)
17628	2001-08-26 20:48:00	the answer is if u got the version of ghost which does not support win2k - no way. get the newer version ... newer does win2k incl. ntfs. if u used older ghost to backup ntfs u can still restore it .... but not convert back to fat32 - not even windows let u do that. i think u are stuck with it unless with other 3rd s/w.	Guest (0)
17629	2001-08-26 21:59:00	Thanks Ray, but Ghost 2001 claims Win2K compatability on the box and I don't expect it to reformat an NTFS partition to FAT32. BTW, what does 'unless with other 3rd s/w mean? I have done more research and I now believe that Ghost 2001 can make a file by file copy of an NTFS partition. I get confused when I read the switch information that refers to volume, stripe or mirror copies as sector by sector. I have decided that NTFS partitions will probably be imaged file by file but I can't work out whether dumping the file by file image of the OS onto a newly formatted FAT32 partition will result in a bootable outcome. Can anybody answr that question? Thanks Jack	Guest (0)
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