How do I restore my Windows XP to a larger internal Mac drive?

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I want to keep FAT32 so I can write to it natively from Mac OS X. I don't think Winclone works with FAT32, only NTFS.

Unfortunately (this is M$ land, after all) I don't know a free way to do it. So you might have to buy Norton Ghost?

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