Conversion to NTFS Problems
I have a 10gig drive with 2 partitions, both are FAT32, b/c I was going to dual boot and wanted to be able read evrything. I've never installed Win9x though, and don't plan on it, so the last time I reinstalled Win2K, I formatted C: in NTFS.
I have a 10gig drive with 2 partitions, both are FAT32, b/c I was going to dual boot and wanted to be able read evrything. I've never installed Win9x though, and don't plan on it, so the last time I reinstalled Win2K, I formatted C: in NTFS. I recently tried to convert D: to NTFS and here's what happened:
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System specs: Soyo 7VCA, PIII 500E@667, 256MB RAM, Win2K Server [ full specs].
Thanks,
-bZj
[This message has been edited by Down8 (edited 30 October 2000).]
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C:\>help convertConverts FAT volumes to NTFS.CONVERT volume /FS:NTFS [/V] volume Specifies the drive letter (followed by a colon), mount point, or volume name. /FS:NTFS Specifies that the volume to be converted to NTFS. /V Specifies that Convert should be run in verbose mode.C:\>convert d: /fs:ntfs /vThe type of the file system is FAT32.Enter current volume label for drive D: ide1b-fat32Convert cannot gain exclusive access to the D: drive,so it cannot convert it now. Would you like toschedule it to be converted the next time thesystem restarts (Y/N)? nC:\>exitNow, does anyone know what's up? I have very little room available on that drive [like 2%, ISOs take up a lot of room ], could that be the problem? also, is there any chance of losing data if I do schedule it to be converted at next restart?
System specs: Soyo 7VCA, PIII 500E@667, 256MB RAM, Win2K Server [ full specs].
Thanks,
-bZj
[This message has been edited by Down8 (edited 30 October 2000).]
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Next time Hit Y and reboot. I have never seen it fail.