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Name: Camrygrl
Date: July 25, 2008 at 11:50:09 Pacific
OS: XP Home upgrade
CPU/Ram: 800/512
Product: Dell GX110
Comment:

I have the upgrade version(from Win 98) of Xp Home on my Gx110. I am going to clone the hard drive to a bigger Seagate drive using Discwizard. My question is: If I use the convert utility to covert the fat32 to ntfs (C:\> CONVERT C: /fs:ntfs)
is there any drawbacks? Will it work since it is an upgrade from Win 98?

Thanks for any advice in advance!



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Response Number 1
Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: July 25, 2008 at 12:10:30 Pacific
Reply:

You can't type that at the C prompt. You'll need to change to another drive letter to run the conversion. Should work okay. Just make sure that your computer MOBO can handle the larger drive.

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Response Number 2
Name: Camrygrl
Date: July 25, 2008 at 14:10:39 Pacific
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I have formatted the drive to ntfs but diskwizard wants to change it back to fat32.
ughhhhh


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Response Number 3
Name: OtheHill
Date: July 25, 2008 at 14:12:05 Pacific
Reply:

What size (capacity) is the drive in question?


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Response Number 4
Name: Camrygrl
Date: July 25, 2008 at 14:21:19 Pacific
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100 gig.


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Response Number 5
Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: July 25, 2008 at 14:43:33 Pacific
Reply:

Did you convert the original file system to NTFS before running the clone software?

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Response Number 6
Name: Camrygrl
Date: July 25, 2008 at 14:52:17 Pacific
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No. What I think I will do is go ahead and clone the hard drive then convert it to ntfs using the command prompt. That way I'll have a back up if anything goes wrong.


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Response Number 7
Name: Chuck 2
Date: July 26, 2008 at 05:09:50 Pacific
Reply:

http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...
How to Use Convert.exe to Convert a Partition to the NTFS File System


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Response Number 8
Name: Camrygrl
Date: July 26, 2008 at 06:12:09 Pacific
Reply:

Change is done. Zone Alarm started blocking Internet Explorer, all incoming and outgoing connections. I uninstalled it and am trying to reinstall but says something about an msi patch. If I can't fix it I will probably go back to the fat32. thanks for everyones input!


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Response Number 9
Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: July 26, 2008 at 07:33:34 Pacific
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Zone Alarm not working properly doesn't have anything to do with the file system. If you were able to successfully uninstall it, I'd highly recommend NOT reinstalling.

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