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Trogan
3 Jan 2005, 9:20am
My uncles Win XP Pro computer has FAT32 on it.

I was wondering how to convert Fat32 to NTFS without losing any data. The computer specs are not that good anyway.

is it a good idea to convert to NTFS or not? If so, How do I do that?

Thanks

btw, I'm won't be at my uncles computer soon so I need any help possible
Thrax
3 Jan 2005, 9:28am
Use the windows utility called "Convert."

Just go to the Command Prompt and execute the command:

C:\> CONVERT C: /fs:ntfs

Where C: is a name of the drive you want to convert.

After the machine reboots, the conversion will take place without data loss.
Trogan
3 Jan 2005, 9:45am
Thanks Thrax. I changed the C:\ from Fat32 to NTFS successfully.
Thrax
3 Jan 2005, 10:09am
/me nods
bothered
3 Jan 2005, 10:16am
Wow, I always thought this wasn't possible. I have three drives, c and d (FAT32) and e (NTFS) Can I just convert c and d and not loose anything?
Thrax
3 Jan 2005, 10:23am
Yep.
bothered
3 Jan 2005, 10:26am
Thrax, you're a diamond geezer mate, thanks.
TheSmJ
3 Jan 2005, 11:02am
Thrax, you're a diamond geezer mate, thanks.

He's a geezer alright! ;D
Thrax
3 Jan 2005, 11:04am
Diamond geezer = legendary hero. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/Thrax/thebirdman.gif
bothered
3 Feb 2005, 12:16pm
Right I tried this. It asks me to enter the correct volume label. Where do I get that from?
Tex
3 Feb 2005, 3:20pm
And it's also a horrible thing to do. It converts to ntfs but uses 512byte clusters. Thats not k folks. As in not like the default of 4k clusters or like the 16k or higher we use for performance but 512 bytes. Like half a k. So you just ruined the performance of the drive because now it has to hammer the drive over and over to get data off as it reads and writes a cluster at a time.

This is a horrible thing to do. To read or write it just beats the living h*ll out of the drive.

Tex