Fat32 imaging

[Jeet]

I had a question regarding acronis true image.


Here is the situation

User has winme on 40 gig hd formatted with fat32
User buys new 250 gig hd and wants old info on it
User also going to upgrade to xp home.

Is this how I should go about doing this?
First image 40 gig fat32
Then restore image to new harddrive
Then boot from cd and install xp home sp2
After that Sp2 should see the extra gigs

Because the concerned I had was regarding Acronis and the extra space.
Since the image original was fat32 and their is a limitation regarding space with winme.
Should I convert the new hd after it imaged to NTFS then run xp upgrade?

I'm worried that since the image was originally fat32 that the extra space won't show up.

Thanks for any helpo

[Acronis Support]

Hello Jeet,

Thank you for your interest in Acronis Disk Backup Software (http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/).

Please note that there are two approaches available:

Clone Disk - moves the entire contents of one disk drive to another;

Backup - creates a special archive file for backup and disaster recovery purposes;

Please read more in this FAQ article (http/www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/faq.html/#12).

I recommend you to clone your old hard drive to a new one and resize your partitions during cloning process.
After cloning, you can install Windows XP Service Pack 2 and convert your FAT32 file system to NTFS one.

You can also find more information on how to use Acronis True Image 9.0 in the respective User's Guide (http/www.acronis.com/homecomputing/download/docs/).

If you have any further questions please feel free to ask.

Thank you.
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Tatyana Tsyngaeva