Re: Copy NTFS to Fat 32

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Ed Moo wrote:
> Hope I am not a hypocrit for asking this here.!
> Bought a used Dell which already had XP on it but HD formatted as
> NTFS There is no disc for thye XP
>
> Had hoped to set this up as a dual booth with Ubuntu Linux. But
> Ubuntu only works in FAT32.
>
> My question: If I used Norton ghost to copy the XP onto a back up
> drive, would it be possible to reformatt the existing drive to
> FAT32, then ghost the image back onto so that I end up with XP on a
> FAT32??

No. You get the file system with the image.

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