Upgrading HDD from FAT32 to NTFS

[Blayne]

Hi,

I'm upgrading a 40GB HDD with 3 FAT32 partitions. Drive C is 5GB,
Drive D is 15GB, and Drive E is 20GB. The new drive is 120GB with 3
40GB NTFS partitions. I'm using Drive Image 7 to copy the old HDD to
the new HDD. After I copy the data, I'm noticing that the amount of
data is much greater on the new drive. For example, when I copy
8237MB from the old 20GB partition to a new 40GB partition, the amount
of data is 30076MB. Is this normal? I jumped from 43% usage to 73%
usage. That doesn't seem right! Shouldn't the same 100MB file on
FAT32 be 100MB on NTFS?

 

[Guest]

No because of cluster waste, if you have partition magic
or similar, use it to chack waste. convert new h/d to
ntfs. hope thos gives you help. chris

 

[Richard Urban]

When you copy an image to a new drive the file system in use when the image
was created (in your case fat32) is created on the new drive. Your 40 gig
NTFS partition is no longer valid. So you now have a 40 gig drive (if you
selected to use all the space) formatted as fat32. The large clusters will
create more wasted space if you have a multitude of small files.

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

 

[Richard Urban]

It is possible that the system will only allow the Drive Image to create a
32 gig partition - a limitation of the Operating System - if you opt to use
all of the remaining space in the original 40 gig NTFS partition.

--
Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

 

[Blayne]

It sounds like I can solve my problem by converting my old partitions
to NTFS before doing the copy. That way, I would be copying an NTFS
onto NTFS. In addition, I can copy my D and E partitions to their new
partitions with a regular system copy instead of Drive Image and would
perserve my space, I believe. But now for the boot partition, should
I still use Drive Image? I will be copying a 5GB NTFS onto a 40GB
NTFS partition. Will I be losing any disk space in this case?

Thanks!

Blayne