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Greetings, fellow imagers!

From the Ghost Knowledgebase:

"Ghost Explorer can add files to images of FAT and FAT32 partitions, remove files from images of FAT and FAT32 partitions, and restore files from images of FAT, FAT32, and NTFS partitions. Ghost Explorer cannot add to and remove files from images of other partitions such as NTFS or EXT2."

Apparantly, if an image is made of an NTFS partition, you can not add and remove files. BUT what if that image is then stored on a drive that is formatted as FAT32?

Maybe it's a dumb question, but I know that if you take files from an NTFS partition and transfer them to a FAT32 partition, they will lose any attributes that are only supported by NTFS (such as permissions). So, in the same way, would an image of an NTFS partition lose its special properties as well?

Pause for a moment of levity:
When I spell checked my post, the check didn't recognize "Knowledgebase" (I guess it's 2 words) so, among other words, it offered "Knowledgeableness" (wow!) and "Norwegians"! :)
...well, I though it was amusing...

Hi Shawn,

Ghost Explorer doesn't currently allow you to modify the contents of an NTFS partition within an image file.

The workaround, albeit tedious, is to restore the image to a drive, make the desired changes using Windows and reimage the drive.

Note that when you restore a partition from an image onto a drive, you are restoring an entire file system, not just a collection of files. Therefore if you restore an NTFS partition onto a FAT32 partition, the FAT32 partition will be completely obliterated and you will end up with an NTFS partition.

If you really want to extract the files from an NTFS partition within an image and store them on a FAT32 partition, then you could load the image into Ghost Explorer and use the Extract command to extract one or more files/directories from an image and save them to your FAT32 partition. However this may take some time to execute as the Extract command is designed to extract a small subset of a files from an image, rather than performing a full restore. You will also lose any NTFS file attributes for which there are no equivalents under FAT32.