Converting to NTFS question

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fuzzzzy wrote on 10/9/2002, 5:57 PM
Powerquest driveimage 2000 will image any drive ie. fat32 or ntfs
I have all ntfs partitions and imaged my c drive which I have restored a number of times
fuzzzzy
shaunn wrote on 10/9/2002, 9:46 PM
Fuzzzy:
is drive image 2000 the same as 4.0? you said you image your C system drive, does it have Xp installed?

Thanks for the help.
jetdv wrote on 10/10/2002, 9:31 AM
I can vouch that, while Drive Image 4.0 WILL handle NTFS partitions, it would NOT image the drive on a new XP system. An upgrade is required to properly handle XP.
jboy wrote on 10/10/2002, 1:16 PM
Salad, that is truly strange. What version of Ghost are you using ? You mean you can Ghost an NTSF partition only to a FAT32 one, and Ghost-presumably-automatically converts the transfer to FAT32, and back from FAT32>NTSF when you re-install ? If all this conversion is going on, does it take any more time that a FAT32 to FAT32 process would ? Sysprep, from what I"ve heard, removes security tags under NTSF that prevent data from being copied or transfered w/o authorization, but your method looks to be a lot easier.
fuzzzzy wrote on 10/10/2002, 2:53 PM
Yes I'm using XP pro with ntfs and drive image 2000 creates hassle free images!

fuzzzy
shaunn wrote on 10/11/2002, 5:26 PM
Well I got two contradicting answers here: one says that you can't image XP with drive image 4.0 and the other says he can....so what is the real deal here?

PS: is drive image 2000, the same as 4.0? I google it but didn't come up with anything.
jetdv wrote on 10/11/2002, 10:19 PM
My copy of Drive Image 4.0 would NOT image a brand new computer with XP installed. It WILL image NTFS drives. I don't know what's different with the XP drive. Drive Image 2000 is a newer version that should be able to handle XP. The company name is PowerQuest.
Caruso wrote on 10/11/2002, 10:49 PM
wcoxe1:
I'm surprised no one so far has responded to your comment about lost space. How much space did you lose and why?

I run a dual boot system (xp and win98) because there are programs (or versions of programs) whose 98 environments appeal to me more than their "improved" xp counterparts. For those programs, I keep 98 on my machine, and enough FAT32 to make working with them practical. All other drive space is formatted for NTFS.

In my experience, NTFS seems to save space because my partitions are not chopped up into so many small segments.

I say seems, because I'm no expert, so I'd love to see some more dialog on this topic.

Anyone?

Caruso