"Ed Moo" <emacaulacow@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%236PCymNCGHA.2664@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > 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??
>
> Any comments would be appreciated.
As Shenan says, no, you can't do that.
However, you could download BootItNG from Terabyte Unlimited and partition
the drive with it during the trial period, shrinking the XP volume and
formatting the new volume (partition) as FAT32.
However, you then need to use a boot manager. Lilo would do the trick, as
typically supplied in a Linux distro, but I don't know about Ubuntu.
Re: Returning drive to fat32 from NTFS ... I've come across a way to format either a internal HD or USB/Firewire external hard drive in FAT32 in *any* capacity and from *within* the XP environment. ... However, since the FDISK command will not "see" a USB/Firewire external hard drive, that drive cannot be partitioned/formatted in FAT32 using the FDISK/FORMAT commands. ... In addition to the usefulness of this program in formatting a USB EHD of any capacity in FAT32, the program can also can be similarly used to format an internal HD of any capacity in FAT32. ... NOTE THIS PROGRAM IS *NOT* A CONVERSION PROGRAM IN THE SENSE THAT IT WILL CONVERT A NTFS PARTITION TO A FAT32 PARTITION WHILE RETAINING ALL THE DATA. ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
Re: NAS with 320GB HDD connected with TCP/IP or USB only shows 190GB ! ... Suggested is formatting with FAT32 with its 32GB limit if I am not ... I would tend more to ext3 if mainly used with Linux / Ubuntu!... I'd do some reading on your NAS manuals - I don't think the problem ... (Ubuntu)
Re: Seagate Barracuda 160 GB IDE becomes corrupted. RMA? ... I've never lost a HD before, ... partitions, 2 of them, like before, formatting one to NTFS, the other ... to FAT32 (so my Win98SE partition can see it). ... (comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage)
Re: Zip Back up? ... SimpleDrive is preformatted as an NTFS volume. ... For instructions on formatting disk drives,... so the only reason for a FAT32 partition is for Win9x and earlier or Me. ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
Re: Returning drive to fat32 from NTFS ... partition/format an internal hard drive of virtually any size in FAT32.... since the FDISK command will not "see" a USB/Firewire external hard ...FAT32 PARTITION WHILE RETAINING ALL THE DATA. ... SO ALL DATA WILL BE LOST FOLLOWING THE FORMATTING.... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
