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When i ghost the computer (disk to disk), it shows "converting partition from Fat32 to Fat, proceed?"

Updated: 22 May 2010 | 1 comment
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hi all,
i need to ghost a computer, which have 4 partition. The format of c,d,e drive are NTFS, and the format of f drive is FAt 32.
The OS of this computer is windows 2000. When i ghost it (disk to disk), it shows "converting partition from Fat32 to Fat, proceed?"
I click yes, and it start to ghost.
So if I use this new harddisk, is it work?

thx

details of this computer
OS: windows 2000
Drive: C,D,E drive are NTFS; F drive is Fat32
Ghost: Ghost 8.3

 

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Eugene Manko's picture
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2009
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In a nutshell - every

In a nutshell - every filesystem has size limitations. In your case when you clone to a much smaller drive it probably detects that size of the destination partition is too small for FAT32 so it offers to convert it to FAT16. You can use FAt32 on a smaller partition sizes but a) you would be wasting space (and it is precious on small partitions) and b) this FAT32 small partition may not be compatible with MS software.