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Changing fat32 to NTFS.

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Is it possible to change my fat32 to NTFS without losing any files? If so what's the procedure?

Name: freddy
Date: May 13, 2002 at 14:43:30 Pacific

Reply:

only partition magic 7 will convert ntfs to fat 32

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Name: Matt
Date: May 13, 2002 at 14:43:48 Pacific

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Yes you can. Just go to RUN>CMD at c:prompt type CONVERT C:/FS:NTFS (where C is the desired drive) and folow the onscreen instructions! any probs just post here! Matt

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Reply:

Freddy is right that only partition magic 7 will convert ntfs to fat 32. However that was not the question. As Matt says to convert from Fat32 to NTFS you use the convert command. Super Play

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cool, thanks. I just converted and everything went well. :)

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Name: Matt
Date: May 13, 2002 at 15:19:51 Pacific

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You're welcome, thanks for letting us know! Matt

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