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Mike W

Hi,I am just in the process of upgrading my set up from Windows98, I am
having new desktop box built with an AMDAthalon 2500 Processor DVD/CD RW
Plus bells and whistles Etc. I have an OEM WidowsXP with the mother board
and someone has been telling me that you can't do a Clone/Ghost with
WindowsXP. What I intended to do was set the WindowsXP up with all the
programs that I want on it, register the set up and when it was running as I
wanted it I was going to do a Clone/Ghost and then I could copy this back to
the C drive if ever I got the drive and WindowsXP screwed up in any way.
please tell me if I can do this or not and if not why not.
Many thank Mike
PS Where can I get information on the best way of running WindowsXP?
 
There is no reason this should not work for you. Imaging does work on XP
partitions.

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Hi,I am just in the process of upgrading my set up from Windows98, I am
having new desktop box built with an AMDAthalon 2500 Processor DVD/CD RW
Plus bells and whistles Etc. I have an OEM WidowsXP with the mother board
and someone has been telling me that you can't do a Clone/Ghost with
WindowsXP. What I intended to do was set the WindowsXP up with all the
programs that I want on it, register the set up and when it was running as I
wanted it I was going to do a Clone/Ghost and then I could copy this back to
the C drive if ever I got the drive and WindowsXP screwed up in any way.
please tell me if I can do this or not and if not why not.
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Sure, that's a good plan. I keep an image of my system drive on another
drive for just such emergencies. I'd suggest doing your Ghosting from a
bootable DOS disk and having the drive where you will store the images
formatted in FAT32 to simplify access.
PS Where can I get information on the best way of running WindowsXP?
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Just read these newsgroups. Once you learn to ignore the kooks they can
be a good place to get started.
 
Thank you very much, I shall see my informative friend and put him right
Mike W
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Thank you
 
Seems this place is full of Michaels.
That's exactly what I did with my windows98 set up and now intend to do the
same with windowsXP, I will also use the FAT32 all the time I think.
Mike W
 
Mike said:
Seems this place is full of Michaels.
That's exactly what I did with my windows98 set up and now intend to
do the same with windowsXP, I will also use the FAT32 all the time I
think.
Mike W
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Why?! Unless you plan to dual boot with an OS that cannot read it, NTFS is
the way to go, providing greater performance and security.
 
Not to mention that 4 KB cluster use a lot less disk space than 32 KB clusters!

1 desktop icon (say 900 b) in NTFS uses 1 4K cluster, in FAT32 the same icon would use 1 32K cluster! You can have 7 more (8) icons in the same space that 1 icon occupies in FAT32 if you use NTFS.

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Just my 2¢ worth
Jeff
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| Why?! Unless you plan to dual boot with an OS that cannot read it, NTFS is
| the way to go, providing greater performance and security.
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mrtee said:
Not to mention that 4 KB cluster use a lot less disk space than 32 KB
clusters!

1 desktop icon (say 900 b) in NTFS uses 1 4K cluster, in FAT32 the
same icon would use 1 32K cluster! You can have 7 more (8) icons in
the same space that 1 icon occupies in FAT32 if you use NTFS.
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Good point, Jeffrey!
 
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