Windows XP - Question about "File and Settings Transfer Wizard"

[cchafin99]

Just a quick question regarding the File and Settings Transfer Wizard.
If using an external hard drive to save the data to, does it
automatically remove old data from that drive prior to doing the
transfer? The reason I ask is because a friend has used FAST and sent
the data to an external drive that was formatted with FAT32. The drive
now shows as an NTFS partition and he can't find the FAT32 data
anywhere. Is it lost forever or is there something simple that can be
done to get that old data back from the external HDD? Properties for
the drive show that it's a 40gb drive with 17gb allocated. However,
when you look at it through My Computer it only shows 400mb in use.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Just a quick question regarding the File and Settings Transfer Wizard.
If using an external hard drive to save the data to, does it
automatically remove old data from that drive prior to doing the
transfer? The reason I ask is because a friend has used FAST and sent
the data to an external drive that was formatted with FAT32. The
drive now shows as an NTFS partition and he can't find the FAT32 data
anywhere. Is it lost forever or is there something simple that can be
done to get that old data back from the external HDD? Properties for
the drive show that it's a 40gb drive with 17gb allocated. However,
when you look at it through My Computer it only shows 400mb in use.

F.A.S.T. doesn't do anything to your target media other than write the data
to it when using it to transfer files from a system to a holding point
before importing it onto the new machine. It makes a directory and a "file"
that contains everything in it. It definitely will not reformat a drive.