Hello!
I'm trying find a way to format hard drives into NTFS format from DOS (booted into dos with Windows 98 boot disk).
Yes, I'm aware that NTFS format can not be accessed by pure DOS, but I have NTFSDOS PRO, witch alowed me read/write on NTFS disks.
Ok, here is what I'm trying to do:
All my windows installation located on drive E: (witch is NTFS formated), but my C: drive is formated as FAT32, and if I install Windows XP on C: drive, I'll need convert FAT32 to NTFS - witch is not acceptible, because system will be twice slower (little exagerated) then if C: was formated into NTFS at the beginning. (Since I'm installing XP from harddrive, it must have 400mb of free space on Primary Master disk (C:) to store preinstallation files, that's why when u convert FAT32 to NTFS during installation the MFT will be 400mb off the begining of disk. When u install XP from HD, u can not format FAT32 partitions into NTFS, u can only convert them)

So, is there any tools out there that could let me format C: drive into NTFS from DOS?

Thank you!

P.S. the reason I prefere installing XP from HD is because it takes about 10-15 min instead of 40-50 min from CD ;)

Ok, if anyone instersting I found a solution (even better then I could think of :))
I use Partition Magick for DOS.

Hi
This might help.

www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/proddocs/standard/convert.asp

yes, but as I mentioned in my first post the convertion doesnt work for me, due to pure perfomance after it...

btw, even though I could format all my drives into NTFS, I still couldnt install windows from HD, it was giving me "Not enough memory" error...
not sure why 1gig of RAM wasnt enough for it..:S

Windows XP uses a utility called DISKPART provided on the CD (I think)to create NTFS partitions.

While I agree the problem can be solved by the use of a DOS Bootdisk, I feel it would still be more appropriate to post this type of problem under the XP forum, where I am sure other users would be far more interested!