Automated System Recovery & FAT32

[Ronnie Pincus]

I have my Windows XP Professional installation on a 36 GB SCSI drive, one
parttion formatted as FAT32. Of course, since Windows XP will not format
FAT32 on a partition over 32 GB, I used a DOS startup disk to partition and
format prior to install.
My question is, if I need to do an Automated System Recovery (ASR Restore),
will it be able to automatically reformat my drive as FAT32. If so, will it
use the
entire 36 GB, or only up to 32 GB?
Or will it default to NTFS, since it will recognize the disk as over 32GB?

 

[Ben]

Ronnie Pincus ´£¨ì:

I have my Windows XP Professional installation on a 36 GB SCSI drive, one
parttion formatted as FAT32. Of course, since Windows XP will not format
FAT32 on a partition over 32 GB, I used a DOS startup disk to partition and
format prior to install.
My question is, if I need to do an Automated System Recovery (ASR Restore),
will it be able to automatically reformat my drive as FAT32. If so, will it
use the
entire 36 GB, or only up to 32 GB?
Or will it default to NTFS, since it will recognize the disk as over 32GB?

I know when I use GHOST, a 40 GB HDD will be changed from FAT32 to NTFS.
And partitions will not be changed.