Re: Conversion from FAT32 to NTFS in XP

From: Shenan Stanley (news_helper_at_hushmail.com)
Date: 03/13/04 

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 20:30:41 -0600

eric wrote:
> Thanks for the help. From the help it is better to
> reformat than to convert. I was wondering if I make a
> backup file with Ghost (Symantec) with the partition in
> FAT32 and reformat the partition to NTFS and then
> reinstall the ghost backup file to the new formatted NTFS
> partition will it work properly? Does anyone has
> experience doing what I would like to do?

What you are suggesting won't work. Ghost cannot write to NTFS. It would
overwrite it with FAT32 and convert it.

Believe me.. Conversion works fine.. This comes from thousands upon
thousands of conversions.. 

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