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Name: Mst.Wayne
Date: August 9, 2009 at 06:08:35 Pacific
OS: Windows XP
Product: Kingston Datatraveler 150 32gb usb flash drive
Subcategory: Hard Drives
Comment:

while converting from FAT32 to NTFS...
"Insufficient disk space for conversion"..is the error..




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Response Number 1
Name: worldlibrary
Date: August 9, 2009 at 06:56:46 Pacific
Reply:

How big is the hd and how much free space do you have on it?

Need to free up some space or get a bigger hd.


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Response Number 2
Name: Mst.Wayne
Date: August 9, 2009 at 12:24:49 Pacific
Reply:

Ita 32Gb...& is empty...no occupied space..


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Response Number 3
Name: DAVEINCAPS
Date: August 9, 2009 at 13:22:01 Pacific
Reply:

It's empty? Then you don't need to 'convert' it. Just boot up with the XP cd and let it load the files. It'll get to the screen that will allow you to delete the fat32 partition. Do that and recreate it as NTFS.

You can also delete the fat32 partition with FDISK on a 98 bootdisk or the old dos utility DELPART. But neither of those are capable of then creating an NTFS partition.

Or, if it's a slave drive on a functioning XP system you should be able to delete and recreate the partition with disk management.


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Response Number 4
Name: aegis1
Date: August 9, 2009 at 13:38:05 Pacific
Reply:

Is this a flash drive? If so, checkout:

http://www.ntfs.com/quest22.htm


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Response Number 5
Name: Mst.Wayne
Date: August 11, 2009 at 06:01:24 Pacific
Reply:

What is a Flash Drive..?


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Response Number 6
Name: Kurt S
Date: August 11, 2009 at 11:03:15 Pacific
Reply:

You posted that you are using a Kingston flash drive and now you're asking what a flash drive is?!!!

you cannot format a flash drive to an NTFS partition.


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