Quick!!! Coverting FAT32 to NTFS

TroganTrogan London, UK
edited February 2005 in Science & Tech
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

Comments

  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    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.
  • TroganTrogan London, UK
    edited January 2005
    Thanks Thrax. I changed the C:\ from Fat32 to NTFS successfully.
  • ThraxThrax
    nods
     🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    nods
  • botheredbothered Manchester UK
    edited January 2005
    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?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    Yep.
  • botheredbothered Manchester UK
    edited January 2005
    Thrax, you're a diamond geezer mate, thanks.
  • TheSmJTheSmJ
    edited January 2005
    bothered wrote:
    Thrax, you're a diamond geezer mate, thanks.

    He's a geezer alright! ;D
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    Diamond geezer = legendary hero. thebirdman.gif
  • botheredbothered Manchester UK
    edited February 2005
    Right I tried this. It asks me to enter the correct volume label. Where do I get that from?
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited February 2005
    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
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