- Lesson learned when upgrading to XP

[Air Force Jayhawk]

Don't understand boot disks and boot records and all but think I
discovered a "feature" of XP.

Several months ago I upgraded from 98SE to XP. Should have done a
clean install but chose not to. 98SE used (naturally) FAT 32; I
elected to switch to NTFS per some advice. XP created a new partition
of NTFS, leaving behind a tiny (7mb) fat 32 partition that contained
the system files and perhaps the master boot record.

This weekend I bought a new drive to replace the old one and have
tried several programs to clone the old c:\ drive to the new drive.
Tried the Maxtor disk, XXclone, and Casper XP. None worked. I
discovered only too late that the two original partions were probably
causing the problem.

Reason number 753 to do a clean install vs an upgrade.

AFD

 

[cimex]

You make an excellent point. Thanks for passing it along.

 

[no_one]

I hate to say it, but a clean install would have given you the same choice
of NTFS and would have locked out earlier FAT32 tools in the same fasion.

 

[TheCrewser]

Not if you take the option of deleting all existing partitions and
creating a new NTFS partition. When you are finished with the
install, you would have one NTFS partition.

Just a thought...

GLCrews,MCP