Backing Up a Hard Drive

[stephen1947]

My PC Hard Drive is formatted for NTFS. I have just purchased an external Hard drive formatted in FAT32.

Can I clone the PC disk to the external hard drive and restore if necessary without problems

[Llamatron]

How are you doing the cloning?

If you make a clone with something like Nortons Ghost then yes you can clone to it.

[fo3nix]

You'll probably be best reformatting the external to NTFS too though, if it's for backup.

[wideboy]

As long as you don't need to use the external drive on older OSs, do as fo3nix says and reformat the drive as NTFS.