Questions about Norton Ghost and partitions.

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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!
 
I don't think the "remaining space" is automatically issued as anything
until you format it.

Actually the first partition isn't either.
 
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
 
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
 
sounds good to me
MacG said:
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
Click to expand...
 
Robotnik said:
sounds good to me
Click to expand...

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.
 
ok so I was wrong........ in XP the program is called DISKPART I
beleive.....or you could use third party software.
 
~misfit~ said:
Doesn't to me. You could have problems creating a 60GB partition with fdisk,
I believe that it is limited to 32GB.
Click to expand...

FAT32 has a limit of 8 terabytes:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;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 :-)
 
You're welcome. And for all of those who replied someone to me, thanks for
pointing out my mistakes. hehe......I learn from those.

Nic
 
If only all the threads in every newsgroup would be so positive.... *sigh*

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