[X4U] Gimme a Mac any day - I need PC help!

[Chris Long]

Try this...

http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/ntfscvt.php

basically converting your FAT32 to NTFS.  Can you boot your USB drive or boot off the original?  Anyway, convert the FAT32 to NTFS then you can expand the partition to 75 GB.  However, I seem to remember running at least 40 GB FAT32 partitions before, but that might be wrong.

Chris


On Jan 23, 2010, at 10:08 PM, Conlon Brett wrote:

> Mannnn, working with PC's more and more has made me love Macs all the more.
> 
> I'm looking for a tool which can help me to clone/migrate a Windows XP partition on a USB drive (32GB Fat-32) to my Mac laptop's 75GB NTFS partition.
> 
> I've been searching and testing PC utilities for days and so far have nu lock finding a free or otherwise solution. They either want to clone the entire hard drive to the destination (overwriting what I already have for my partitioning on the Mac) or they can't recognise the NTFS partition on the GUID formatted drive (ie. they don't support GPT).
> 
> I just HAVE to get this working in the next day (pref-next few hrs) or I'm stuffed!!!!
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Cojcolds (who was having a grand 40th boofday until this came along <8-{ )
> 
> ps. my original need was to try to get myself a larger WinXP partition to work with (larger than 32GB) due to constantly running out of space but I found I couldn't have more than 2 partitions when using bootcamp (one for MacOS and the other for Windows) so adding another FAT-32 partition was outa the question... I couldn't install Windows onto a FAT-32 partition larger than 32GB (it just won't boot - windows limitation) and so NTFS is the only option left. I imaged my original 32GB FAT-32 partition using Ghost 9 but found that the only way to restore a Ghost image is for it to resize the partition back to 32GB, defeating my initial purpose of obtaining a larger drive so in the end I restored it to an external USB drive and now I want to migrate all the contents to my NTFS partition. I still have the original ghost image if needed, too. When I had to back up the Mac side, I simply used Time Machine which was essentially a single-click function and when I restored the Time Machine backup to the Mac partition I booted off the OSX install disc and restored from a Time Machine Backup - SOOOO EFFFOOORRTTLLEESSSSS!!!!!!!! Hence my email subject...
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