Help on cloning
 

Anyone knows what program and how to clone a fat32 hdd to a nfts hdd while preserving the ntfs format (ntfs allocation size customised to 16kb).

Old hdd: 60GB fat32 with WinXP
New Hdd in raid 0: 160GB ntfs (16KB allocation size)

max007007:

You're not telling us the whole picture here...

If all you're doing is copying data files, then just hookup your old drive to the other IDE channel, and start copying.

If you're trying to reproduce exactly the OS, program files, etc, you can forget about it (I'm sure someone will disagree). A system works better with a new install. (you needed to re-install everything anyways, remember?):D

If you're actually trying to copy a FAT32 from one HD to the other, it won't work either, simply because your hard drives are different sizes. The only reason I could see you trying to do that, is for data recovery purposes (assuming you have a backup on the old HD) but since you're porting over to NTFS, I suspect that you've got a whole different purpose for doing that.

Tell us more, please!

Sounds like a perfect situation for Ghost.

Symantec has a product called Notron Ghost 2002 that will do direct HDD to HDD cloning even across different file systems. Ghost handles FAT, FAT32, NTFS and even NTFS 64k. It can automatically clone FAT volumes to FAT32 volumes and even create image files.

It allows you to copy particians, or "clone" a whole disk sector by sector. It will automatically format the destination drive to maximum size when cloning from a smaller source and handles boot records wonderfully.

What is even better is that it is great for data recovery situations. You can sector clone a damaged/failing disk to a new one and Ghost will attempt to recover the damaged sectors automatically and skip over the ones it cant and continue the clone process.

It runs under DOS and supports long file names with no problems.

hehe yep, this'd be a perfect situation for ghost. It doesn't need to be the 2002 version either, it's been around for some time

Ghost 2002 only becuase it is the latest version and it should have absolutely no problems with that size of a volume. Some of the older version had problems with larger volumes.

Hmmm I didnt think ghost could to a NTFS conversion live like that