using Acronis TI Home 11 to replace 60 gig FAT32 drive w/160 gig NTFS drive?

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What's the smoothest way to go from a 60 gig FAT32 boot drive to a 160 gig NTFS boot drive w/Acronis TIH 11 and Windows XP?

I've got a Windows XP laptop with an internal 60 gig disk partitioned into 2 FAT32 drives, each with 30 gigs.

I've been backing it up faithfully with True Image Home 11, but now it's about full, and I've purchased a 160 gig drive to replace it. My goal is to copy what I've got now to the new drive, temporarily mounted as an external drive via USB, then install the big new drive as the single internal drive in the laptop.

I'd prefer to install the new 160 gig drive as NTFS.

What's my best course of action:
(1) Use Acronis to clone the existing drive to the new drive, mounted via USB, which presumably makes the new drive a FAT32, and then convert the new drive to NTFS?

(2) Format the new drive as NTFS and then restore the existing Acronis backups to the new drive? (If I do this, is the new drive likely to boot the laptop?)

Thanks.

Gio, 12/30/2010 - 05:01
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Whichever method you use, you will still need to convert the FAT32 to NTFS. TI will clone/restore as FAT32 since that is what the source is.

Don't try to restore or clone to the new drive when connected via USB. Install the new drive into the laptop and then clone/restore to it (connect the old drive via USB, if necessary). This is often necessary because the drive geometry when connected via USB is not the same as the internal drive, causing booting problems.

If restoring an image, the best results are usually obtained from an Entire Disk Image backup (check the Disk checkbox) since this allows you to restore the entire drive.

Gio, 12/30/2010 - 06:10