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Convertig to NTFS
Name: hornman03 Date: August 2, 2004 at 05:03:21 Pacific OS: Win XP CPU/Ram: Pentium III 800/512
Comment:
I've formatted and installed Win XP on a new Western Ditigal 80 gig hard drive. After installing, I took the old Maxtor 12 gig and set up NTFS on it. All is fine with both but here is my question. I have a 30 gig Western Digital hard drive with all of my files on it (approximately 20 gig worth of files) which is using FAT 32. Is there a way that I can convert the 30 Gig to NTFS without loosing the files that I have on it? I would think there should be but I'm just not sure how. Thanks for any and all help!
Name: jam Date: August 2, 2004 at 05:22:41 Pacific
Reply:
What's the point? XP can read either NTFS or FAT32, so it really doesn't matter. You can convert, it's not difficult, but there's a slight risk involved.
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