OK here's what it is:
I have an older "Retired" Win2K workstation with Backup Exec 6.5x installed,
I'm working on recommissioning it to a useful systems again,
part of which is including upsizing the HDDs
The C:\ is currently a 10 year old 9GB Maxtor with about 5 years of service (over 40,000 POH)
the problem I've run into is:
a> the original install is FAT32
b> if I use "convert" to NTFS it will give me 512byte clusters which is worse than 8,192Byte FAT32 clusters it now has
I need to know if I can take an image and restore it to a new HDD / Partition using NTFS?
a> take the image of the system as is and restore to NTFS?
b> convert to NTFS and get stuck with 512byte clusters and restore to a prepared default 4,096byte cluster NTFS partition?
Fresh install is not really an option as all of the installed programs have no installation / backup media