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by floridafishing1

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I am installing a new HD and would like to partition to ntfs. My old C drive (fat32) has about 7 gb used on it. Is there anyway to move my operateing system to the new drive partition(ntfs) and the programs to one of the other patritions without reinstalling everything. I will keep the old drive as a secondary drive in the system.

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by thechas

I think that I would convert the old drive over to ntsf first.
Then use Norton Ghost, or another similar utility to transfer your drive over.

Western Digital includes a utility with their retail drives that transfers the files in DOS mode. I don't know if it works with ntsf.

Or, you could format the new drive fat 32, transfer the files, and convert to ntsf afterwords.

Check out the article on partitioning at www.aumha.org they have some insiteful hints.

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