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

[Scott Buntin]

On Jan 24, 2010, at 05:08 , Conlon Brett wrote:

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> 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...


Weird idea, but... try using Apple's Disk Utility's Restore tab. Select the USB partition as the source, and the internal NTFS partition as the target.

I seem to remember doing this ages ago when installing a larger drive, and it worked like a charm. 

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Scott