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Questions about Norton Ghost and partitions.
Hi all,
I've got a 120G drive that I would like to partition in 60G portions. One portion will be ntfs and the second, fat32. How would I go abouts setting up the partitions with fdisk? Setting up the 60G half as fat32 is straight forward, but I believe the remainding space is automatically issued as fat32 when I need ntfs. Will these two drives be able to live happily side by side under xp? Ok, is this true about Norton Ghost? You can ghost an ntfs image onto an ntfs partition but you cannot store an ntfs image on an ntfs partition? Hence you can only store ntfs ghost images on fat32 drives/partitions. That is terrible. Oh well, overall, I would like to be able to do the following: C: (60G ntfs - first half of 120G physical drive) Operating system D: (60G fat32 - other half of 120G physical drive) ghost images of the C:\ E: (120G fat32 2nd physical drive) ghost image of the first physical drive C:/D: reside on Tia! |
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I don't think the "remaining space" is automatically issued as anything
until you format it. Actually the first partition isn't either. "MacG" wrote in message able.rogers.com... Hi all, I've got a 120G drive that I would like to partition in 60G portions. One portion will be ntfs and the second, fat32. How would I go abouts setting up the partitions with fdisk? Setting up the 60G half as fat32 is straight forward, but I believe the remainding space is automatically issued as fat32 when I need ntfs. Will these two drives be able to live happily side by side under xp? Ok, is this true about Norton Ghost? You can ghost an ntfs image onto an ntfs partition but you cannot store an ntfs image on an ntfs partition? Hence you can only store ntfs ghost images on fat32 drives/partitions. That is terrible. Oh well, overall, I would like to be able to do the following: C: (60G ntfs - first half of 120G physical drive) Operating system D: (60G fat32 - other half of 120G physical drive) ghost images of the C:\ E: (120G fat32 2nd physical drive) ghost image of the first physical drive C:/D: reside on Tia! |
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Robotnik,
I think i understand what you are saying but cannot put it into words. Basically, the partitions mean nothing until formatted....I think u summed it well enough. (-8 "Robotnik" wrote in message news I don't think the "remaining space" is automatically issued as anything until you format it. Actually the first partition isn't either. "MacG" wrote in message able.rogers.com... Hi all, I've got a 120G drive that I would like to partition in 60G portions. One portion will be ntfs and the second, fat32. How would I go abouts setting up the partitions with fdisk? Setting up the 60G half as fat32 is straight forward, but I believe the remainding space is automatically issued as fat32 when I need ntfs. Will these two drives be able to live happily side by side under xp? Ok, is this true about Norton Ghost? You can ghost an ntfs image onto an ntfs partition but you cannot store an ntfs image on an ntfs partition? Hence you can only store ntfs ghost images on fat32 drives/partitions. That is terrible. Oh well, overall, I would like to be able to do the following: C: (60G ntfs - first half of 120G physical drive) Operating system D: (60G fat32 - other half of 120G physical drive) ghost images of the C:\ E: (120G fat32 2nd physical drive) ghost image of the first physical drive C:/D: reside on Tia! |
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Glad you understood what I thought I was saying. But did it help you at
all? "MacG" wrote in message able.rogers.com... Robotnik, I think i understand what you are saying but cannot put it into words. Basically, the partitions mean nothing until formatted....I think u summed it well enough. (-8 "Robotnik" wrote in message news I don't think the "remaining space" is automatically issued as anything until you format it. Actually the first partition isn't either. "MacG" wrote in message able.rogers.com... Hi all, I've got a 120G drive that I would like to partition in 60G portions. One portion will be ntfs and the second, fat32. How would I go abouts setting up the partitions with fdisk? Setting up the 60G half as fat32 is straight forward, but I believe the remainding space is automatically issued as fat32 when I need ntfs. Will these two drives be able to live happily side by side under xp? Ok, is this true about Norton Ghost? You can ghost an ntfs image onto an ntfs partition but you cannot store an ntfs image on an ntfs partition? Hence you can only store ntfs ghost images on fat32 drives/partitions. That is terrible. Oh well, overall, I would like to be able to do the following: C: (60G ntfs - first half of 120G physical drive) Operating system D: (60G fat32 - other half of 120G physical drive) ghost images of the C:\ E: (120G fat32 2nd physical drive) ghost image of the first physical drive C:/D: reside on Tia! |
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I think so, I'll do the following:
- fdisk and format fat32 partition - use xp install cd and let it create and format the ntfs portion "Robotnik" wrote in message ... Glad you understood what I thought I was saying. But did it help you at all? "MacG" wrote in message able.rogers.com... Robotnik, I think i understand what you are saying but cannot put it into words. Basically, the partitions mean nothing until formatted....I think u summed it well enough. (-8 "Robotnik" wrote in message news I don't think the "remaining space" is automatically issued as anything until you format it. Actually the first partition isn't either. "MacG" wrote in message able.rogers.com... Hi all, I've got a 120G drive that I would like to partition in 60G portions. One portion will be ntfs and the second, fat32. How would I go abouts setting up the partitions with fdisk? Setting up the 60G half as fat32 is straight forward, but I believe the remainding space is automatically issued as fat32 when I need ntfs. Will these two drives be able to live happily side by side under xp? Ok, is this true about Norton Ghost? You can ghost an ntfs image onto an ntfs partition but you cannot store an ntfs image on an ntfs partition? Hence you can only store ntfs ghost images on fat32 drives/partitions. That is terrible. Oh well, overall, I would like to be able to do the following: C: (60G ntfs - first half of 120G physical drive) Operating system D: (60G fat32 - other half of 120G physical drive) ghost images of the C:\ E: (120G fat32 2nd physical drive) ghost image of the first physical drive C:/D: reside on Tia! |
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sounds good to me
"MacG" wrote in message able.rogers.com... I think so, I'll do the following: - fdisk and format fat32 partition - use xp install cd and let it create and format the ntfs portion "Robotnik" wrote in message ... Glad you understood what I thought I was saying. But did it help you at all? "MacG" wrote in message able.rogers.com... Robotnik, I think i understand what you are saying but cannot put it into words. Basically, the partitions mean nothing until formatted....I think u summed it well enough. (-8 "Robotnik" wrote in message news I don't think the "remaining space" is automatically issued as anything until you format it. Actually the first partition isn't either. "MacG" wrote in message able.rogers.com... Hi all, I've got a 120G drive that I would like to partition in 60G portions. One portion will be ntfs and the second, fat32. How would I go abouts setting up the partitions with fdisk? Setting up the 60G half as fat32 is straight forward, but I believe the remainding space is automatically issued as fat32 when I need ntfs. Will these two drives be able to live happily side by side under xp? Ok, is this true about Norton Ghost? You can ghost an ntfs image onto an ntfs partition but you cannot store an ntfs image on an ntfs partition? Hence you can only store ntfs ghost images on fat32 drives/partitions. That is terrible. Oh well, overall, I would like to be able to do the following: C: (60G ntfs - first half of 120G physical drive) Operating system D: (60G fat32 - other half of 120G physical drive) ghost images of the C:\ E: (120G fat32 2nd physical drive) ghost image of the first physical drive C:/D: reside on Tia! |
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"Robotnik" wrote in message ... sounds good to me Doesn't to me. You could have problems creating a 60GB partition with fdisk, I believe that it is limited to 32GB. Why not just do it all with the XP install CD? It gives you plenty of options of how you want to partition and what file system to use. (Maybe XP is limited to 32GB FAT32 parts.? I'm not sure) Just create a 60GB part. with XP, format to NTFS and install. Leave the rest unallocated for now. If you try putting the FAT32 partition first I think you may have problems booting from the second patition without a boot-manager. -- ~misfit~ "MacG" wrote in message able.rogers.com... I think so, I'll do the following: - fdisk and format fat32 partition - use xp install cd and let it create and format the ntfs portion "Robotnik" wrote in message ... Glad you understood what I thought I was saying. But did it help you at all? "MacG" wrote in message able.rogers.com... Robotnik, I think i understand what you are saying but cannot put it into words. Basically, the partitions mean nothing until formatted....I think u summed it well enough. (-8 "Robotnik" wrote in message news I don't think the "remaining space" is automatically issued as anything until you format it. Actually the first partition isn't either. "MacG" wrote in message able.rogers.com... Hi all, I've got a 120G drive that I would like to partition in 60G portions. One portion will be ntfs and the second, fat32. How would I go abouts setting up the partitions with fdisk? Setting up the 60G half as fat32 is straight forward, but I believe the remainding space is automatically issued as fat32 when I need ntfs. Will these two drives be able to live happily side by side under xp? Ok, is this true about Norton Ghost? You can ghost an ntfs image onto an ntfs partition but you cannot store an ntfs image on an ntfs partition? Hence you can only store ntfs ghost images on fat32 drives/partitions. That is terrible. Oh well, overall, I would like to be able to do the following: C: (60G ntfs - first half of 120G physical drive) Operating system D: (60G fat32 - other half of 120G physical drive) ghost images of the C:\ E: (120G fat32 2nd physical drive) ghost image of the first physical drive C:/D: reside on Tia! --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.518 / Virus Database: 316 - Release Date: 11/09/2003 |
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ok so I was wrong........ in XP the program is called DISKPART I
beleive.....or you could use third party software. "~misfit~" wrote in message ... "Robotnik" wrote in message ... sounds good to me Doesn't to me. You could have problems creating a 60GB partition with fdisk, I believe that it is limited to 32GB. Why not just do it all with the XP install CD? It gives you plenty of options of how you want to partition and what file system to use. (Maybe XP is limited to 32GB FAT32 parts.? I'm not sure) Just create a 60GB part. with XP, format to NTFS and install. Leave the rest unallocated for now. If you try putting the FAT32 partition first I think you may have problems booting from the second patition without a boot-manager. -- ~misfit~ "MacG" wrote in message able.rogers.com... I think so, I'll do the following: - fdisk and format fat32 partition - use xp install cd and let it create and format the ntfs portion "Robotnik" wrote in message ... Glad you understood what I thought I was saying. But did it help you at all? "MacG" wrote in message able.rogers.com... Robotnik, I think i understand what you are saying but cannot put it into words. Basically, the partitions mean nothing until formatted....I think u summed it well enough. (-8 "Robotnik" wrote in message news I don't think the "remaining space" is automatically issued as anything until you format it. Actually the first partition isn't either. "MacG" wrote in message able.rogers.com... Hi all, I've got a 120G drive that I would like to partition in 60G portions. One portion will be ntfs and the second, fat32. How would I go abouts setting up the partitions with fdisk? Setting up the 60G half as fat32 is straight forward, but I believe the remainding space is automatically issued as fat32 when I need ntfs. Will these two drives be able to live happily side by side under xp? Ok, is this true about Norton Ghost? You can ghost an ntfs image onto an ntfs partition but you cannot store an ntfs image on an ntfs partition? Hence you can only store ntfs ghost images on fat32 drives/partitions. That is terrible. Oh well, overall, I would like to be able to do the following: C: (60G ntfs - first half of 120G physical drive) Operating system D: (60G fat32 - other half of 120G physical drive) ghost images of the C:\ E: (120G fat32 2nd physical drive) ghost image of the first physical drive C:/D: reside on Tia! --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.518 / Virus Database: 316 - Release Date: 11/09/2003 |
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"~misfit~" wrote in message ... "Robotnik" wrote in message ... sounds good to me Doesn't to me. You could have problems creating a 60GB partition with fdisk, I believe that it is limited to 32GB. FAT32 has a limit of 8 terabytes: http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;184006 XP limits creating/formatting FAT32 partitions to 32GB's, though it will utilize larger FAT32 partitions made with FDISK. Older versions of FDISK had issues with drives over 64GB (though it could still properly create partitions if percentages were entered instead of MB's for sizing) but the latest version that came with ME will properly recognize larger drives with no issues :-) Why not just do it all with the XP install CD? It gives you plenty of options of how you want to partition and what file system to use. (Maybe XP is limited to 32GB FAT32 parts.? I'm not sure) Just create a 60GB part. with XP, format to NTFS and install. Leave the rest unallocated for now. If you try putting the FAT32 partition first I think you may have problems booting from the second patition without a boot-manager. -- ~misfit~ "MacG" wrote in message able.rogers.com... I think so, I'll do the following: - fdisk and format fat32 partition - use xp install cd and let it create and format the ntfs portion "Robotnik" wrote in message ... Glad you understood what I thought I was saying. But did it help you at all? "MacG" wrote in message able.rogers.com... Robotnik, I think i understand what you are saying but cannot put it into words. Basically, the partitions mean nothing until formatted....I think u summed it well enough. (-8 "Robotnik" wrote in message news I don't think the "remaining space" is automatically issued as anything until you format it. Actually the first partition isn't either. "MacG" wrote in message able.rogers.com... Hi all, I've got a 120G drive that I would like to partition in 60G portions. One portion will be ntfs and the second, fat32. How would I go abouts setting up the partitions with fdisk? Setting up the 60G half as fat32 is straight forward, but I believe the remainding space is automatically issued as fat32 when I need ntfs. Will these two drives be able to live happily side by side under xp? Ok, is this true about Norton Ghost? You can ghost an ntfs image onto an ntfs partition but you cannot store an ntfs image on an ntfs partition? Hence you can only store ntfs ghost images on fat32 drives/partitions. That is terrible. Oh well, overall, I would like to be able to do the following: C: (60G ntfs - first half of 120G physical drive) Operating system D: (60G fat32 - other half of 120G physical drive) ghost images of the C:\ E: (120G fat32 2nd physical drive) ghost image of the first physical drive C:/D: reside on Tia! --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.518 / Virus Database: 316 - Release Date: 11/09/2003 |
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To all those that replied,
thanks for the great info, seriously, you guys are great! MacG "MacG" wrote in message able.rogers.com... Hi all, I've got a 120G drive that I would like to partition in 60G portions. One portion will be ntfs and the second, fat32. How would I go abouts setting up the partitions with fdisk? Setting up the 60G half as fat32 is straight forward, but I believe the remainding space is automatically issued as fat32 when I need ntfs. Will these two drives be able to live happily side by side under xp? Ok, is this true about Norton Ghost? You can ghost an ntfs image onto an ntfs partition but you cannot store an ntfs image on an ntfs partition? Hence you can only store ntfs ghost images on fat32 drives/partitions. That is terrible. Oh well, overall, I would like to be able to do the following: C: (60G ntfs - first half of 120G physical drive) Operating system D: (60G fat32 - other half of 120G physical drive) ghost images of the C:\ E: (120G fat32 2nd physical drive) ghost image of the first physical drive C:/D: reside on Tia! |
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