Re: Cloning NTFS & FAT32

From: Ken Wickes [MSFT] (kenwic_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/29/04 

Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 14:42:26 -0800

If your clone tool overwrites everything on the drive then the destination
file system wouldn't matter, you'll get whatever was on the source drive.
If you are going to clone NTFS drives, make sure your clone tool is NTFS
aware since NTFS contains unique device ids. 

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Ken Wickes [MSFT]
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
"SeaSpeeder" <SeaSpeeder@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:00AA9F83-B158-48FE-B842-6BBA247BCA24@microsoft.com...
> For the Windows XP Pro computer, Drive C will be NTFS. Drive D will be 
> FAT32.
>
> Cloning will overwrite anything on a drive. I know I can clone an NTFS 
> drive
> to/from an NTFS drive and a FAT32 drive to/from a FAT32 drive.
>
> Can I clone an NTFS drive to/from a FAT32 drive or must the FAT32 backup
> drive first be formatted at NTFS? Backup hard drives are FAT32. If any of 
> the
> backup hard drives need to be NTFS, please tell me.
>
> YES/NO - Back up Drive C (NTFS) on NTFS PC to a FAT32 backup drive.
> YES/NO - Restore Drive C (NTFS) on NTFS PC from a FAT32 backup drive.
> YES/NO - Back up Drive D (FAT32) on NTFS PC to a FAT32 backup drive.
> YES/NO - Restore Drive D (FAT32) on NTFS PC from a FAT32 backup drive.
> YES/NO - Restoring a corrupt XP installation from a cloned XP backup drive
> will prompt XP to reactivate? Assume that none of the hardware has 
> changed.
>
> -- 
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> Katmai 550MHz Pentium III CPU, Dial-up & DSL Modems. Ethernet Network
> connected to Win95a, Win98SE, and WinMe machines.

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