FAT32 in Windows XP.

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FAT32 in Windows XP - Ghost Problem.

Hey guys,

I need to format a hard drive in XP to FAT32 in preparation for a Windows 98 drive backup (Ghost 12) that I need to make…

What should I do as I can’t format in FAT32 in XP’s disk management?

Any ideas

Cheers,

SW.

 

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XP will only format FAT32 volumes up to 32GB, you may need a boot disk for anything larger. If you are restoring a Win 98 ghost file it will automatically restore it as FAT 32.

Oh right - the new drive is empty/unformatted and the Win 98 drive that I need to copy over to it is FAT32. Will the source drive bring its file system with it?

Failing that I may just dig out Partition Magic, I think I have it somewhere

Cheers,

SW.

 

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Ahhhh

I just created an exact copy of the drive, but it has also carried over the source drives size - its an 80GB drive displaying as 4GB, the size of original drive...

What have I done wrong

SW.

 

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Okay, a reboot sorted out the incorrect size report - but when I put the new drive into the 98 machine I get and 'invalid system disk' error

It would be anything to do with the new drive being 80GB would it? It's a Windows 98 SE machine...

Cheers,

SW.

 

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I'm also a bit confused about the options I should be making when I create the backup...

Any ideas

Cheers,

SW.

 

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Thanks for the reply mate!

I'm using version 12, only just bought it...

All I've done so far is a disk to disk copy, and after a reboot the drive displays its actually size fine - it just gives the system disk error when I put it in the intended machine

I'm going to try out the different pin configurations tomorrow on the new drive - see if that makes any difference? I think the original drive was set to 'cable select' and I don't that I've tried that yet?

Cheers,

SW.

 

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Thanks mate, I’ll give that a try later - I've not got access to the machine again until this evening, it's in use during office hours

Thinking about it though, could i perform the boot disk trick on it whilst it is out of the host machine? Eg. The drive in my machine, I boot from the floppy: "sys d:" Would that work - I might give that a try later...

I've never done any Ghosting myself before, so I can't really comment on the mechanics of the process, but I know I've seen DVD backups of Windows 2000 loaded straight onto a new hard drive that would then boot up after a restart? There was no need to manually load any drivers or anything - I thought that was the beauty of it

Cheers,

SW.