Re: Use of FAT32 with WXP



"Jerome H. Fine" <spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Is there a way to copy all the files from an NTFS partition to a FAT32
partition and visa versa
and still have the final NTFS partition (after changing from NTFS =>
FAT32 => NTFS) bootable?

If it's not the active partition (meaning the partition where Windows
lives), then XP can do this in several ways.

If it's the active partition, then you'll need to use something like Ghost.

I find that to be a very strange assertion. There are any number of ways
to generate a CRC for all files on a drive while still allowing XP to
exploit the features of NTFS.

Is there an application program that you can suggest which does that? I
must describe myself as an almost Windows dummy? And at 70 years old, I
don't want to spend much time learning all that Windows stuff.

Do you speak Unix? There is an incredibly useful set of Unix tools for
Windows called "unxutils" at unxutils.sourceforge.net that includes a
command line "cksum" command that does a CRC32, as well as a Unix shell,
and even an awk command for scripting.
--
Tim Roberts, timr@xxxxxxxxx
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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