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Howard Kaikow

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"Best" way to convert to NTFS
Feb 20^th, 2006 at 4:25pm

I've already converted 9 of my 10 logical drives to NTFS.

For some drives, I was able to copy the files elsewhere, format the drive, and then copy the files back. This results in the most efficient NTFS drive.

However, for 5 drives, I had to do the conversion at boot time.

I was thinking that there's gotta be a better way.

If Ghost 10 offers the capability of formatting drives, then could I use the Symantec Recovery Disk in Ghost 10 to format the drives and restore all of the FILES (not drives) on their respective drives?

Alternatives?

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	Re: "Best" way to convert to NTFS Reply #1 - Feb 20^th, 2006 at 9:19pm You could Ghost the drive, delete the files using BartPE, reformat as NTFS, then restore the files.
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	Re: "Best" way to convert to NTFS Reply #2 - Feb 21^st, 2006 at 12:26pm MrMagoo wrote on Feb 20^th, 2006 at 9:19pm: You could Ghost the drive, delete the files using BartPE, reformat as NTFS, then restore the files. BartPE does not work in Windows 2000.
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Howard Kaikow

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Reply #3 - Feb 21^st, 2006 at 12:43pm

I was thinking of doing the following.

The system is multiboot, with Retrospect installed on only the main OS. For this problem, I may do better using, say, Ghost 10.

So, if I install Ghost on a lesser OS, say on drive F, I may be able to reformat the other drives and restore from the Ghost image.

Then reboot to the main OS, format drive F and restore the files to F either from the Retrospect or Ghost backup.

The gotchya in this is that each OS is tied to other drives that cannot be converted online. In one case, I believe it's because there's a pagefile on a drive, so I could remove that pagefile, reformat the drive, restore the files, then restore the pagefile.

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Reply #4 - Feb 21^st, 2006 at 9:01pm

MrMagoo wrote on Feb 20^th, 2006 at 9:19pm:

You could Ghost the drive, delete the files using BartPE, reformat as NTFS, then restore the files.

I like that.

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BartPE does not work in Windows 2000.

Yes it does Howard. It even works in Win98. The BartPE CD has to be built in WinXP but after being burnt it can be used for any Windows OS. I haven't tried it for Win95 and I doubt I'll get the chance.

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Howard Kaikow

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Reply #5 - Feb 24^th, 2006 at 1:17am

I found a "solution".
Boot with Partition Magic rescue disks, format the drives, then boot with Ghost's CD and recover the files for each drive.

Recovering files is very slow with Ghost.

Perhaps there is a faster way?
I was afraid to ask Ghost to recover a drive, as I do not know whether drive recovery also restores the drive format.

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Reply #6 - Feb 24^th, 2006 at 1:19am

Brian wrote on Feb 21^st, 2006 at 9:01pm:

I like that.

Yes it does Howard. It even works in Win98. The BartPE CD has to be built in WinXP but after being burnt it can be used for any Windows OS. I haven't tried it for Win95 and I doubt I'll get the chance.

To clarify what I meant: "BartPE cannot be built in Win 2000".
And I have no Win XP systems.

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