Summary: Ok, i upgraded to xp from winme, and i wanted to know how i could change the filesystem to ntfs without formatting..Only reason i want to do this is b...
Summary: i upgraded from winME, all went well, but i didnt get the option to change over the file system to NTFS. ive forgotten if i can do it after an upgrade...
Summary: im trying to conver a second hard drive from fat32 to ntfs but after it does some scanning on the drive it tells me that the driver can not be convert...
Summary: Caution: After you convert a HD from FAT32 to NTFS, you'll no longer be able to access the files on the disk if you also use Windows 98 or Me on the s...
Summary: hello....i have a question.... okay my dad has a 2gb sandisk micro-drive "thumb drive" and he wants to convert it from fat32 to ntfs, when we tried to...
Summary: Is it possible for me to convert my existing 10 GB HDD from FAT32 to NTFS without losing all the files on the computer. If this is possible all the ...
Summary: I would personally use Partition Magic to do it. I dont trust Mr. Gates with all my mp3s. On a second note I would only use NTFS if I had a huge dri...
Summary: I have a fat32 hd and a ntfs hd, when i copy from the fat32 (file sizes around 100mb) to ntfs it hangs half way through. Is this down to copying from ...
Summary: XpUser, I found some sites that recommended changing the cluster size from 512B to 4KB for better performance. So I understand why he wants to do it. ...
Summary: I just wanted to know , why is it possible to change the main hdd from a FAT32 to a NTFS on C: while all the xp files reside in there ? but on a USB k...
Summary: Hey everyone....I am getting rid of this computer and i have 2 HDs .....one is 40 gigs and one is 80...im keeping the 80 gig and was wondering how I c...
Summary: I'm in the same boat as Danny (just read his post) and I did try the CMD prompt to convert from Fat32 to NTFS, but this is what I get "Convert cannot...
Summary: Just thought I'd mention that I read somewhere on Microsoft's site that it was not recommended to convert from FAT32 to NTFS. Didn't really read the a...
Summary: To convert from FAT32 to NTFS: type this at the command prompt: convert c: /fs:ntfs where c is the drive you want to convert. While the conversion pro...
Summary: I have WD IDE hard drive that has bad sectors on it. My drive is 40gb, but it is only showing 5 gb. During the xp install I chose the option to covert...
Summary: I have a boot partition that is formatted in FAT32 and loaded with WinXP. I have a new hard drive formatted with NTFS. I wanted to know if I can image...
Summary: I installed Win XP prof over Win ME and all is fine. From reading comments in this Forum, it looks like converting my 29G HD from fat32 to NTFS should...
Summary: So I tried to convert my c drive (a stand alone slave drive not partitioned) from FAT32 to NTFS via DOS usind the command G:>C: /fs:ntfs but I keep c...
Summary: Okay heres my problem in a nutshell, I went in and needed to wipe my sys, but being the lazy freak I am, i went in and formatted my drives using quick...
Summary: hi there, do you lose all your data, like files, programs, OS, if i go from fat32 to ntfs? and do u recommend it, i have a 20gig drive, maxtor firebal...
Summary: An error occurs when I try to convert my C drive from FAT32 to NTFS. It happens when I need to restart the computer to perform the conversion. After t...
Summary: First off, I agree with the above, converting the old 98 HD to NTFS might not be wise. 98 only support FAT16 and FAT32, while XP supports FAT16, FAT32...
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