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

[Conlon Brett]

I couldn't boot off the USB drive (the boot sesect window wouldn't  
show it). I was hoping that wasn't a bad sign.

After endless roadblocks with everything I tried, I decided to restore  
the ghost img to the Mac ntfs volume and perhaps do the convery/resize  
after that. To my surprise, the end result was that I now have a 75GB  
FAT32 partition that I can boot off - which flies in the face of what  
I was told was possible and read on the MS website and my own tests.  
However the fan seems to be running rather fast a lot of the time but  
that could be due to our Aussie heat at the mo. 8-D. There also seems  
to be frequent delays between keystrokes, like it's busy in the b'grnd.

I'll monitor it in the next day or 2. I may still need to convert it  
to ntfs.

Cheers, Cojcolds

Sent from my iPhone

On 24/01/2010, at 18:40, Chris Long <clong at mac.com> wrote:

> 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 M
> achine backup to the Mac partition I booted off the OSX install disc  
> and restored from a Time Machine Backup - SOOOO  
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