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Converting to NTFS

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VerbalKint

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Hi,

I currently have 2 hard drives on my system an ibm 75gxp 20gb hard drive which is using NTFS and contains windows 2000 and other various stuff. Then i have a 60 gb Diamond Maxtor Max plus. The latter drive i use primarily to store my mp3's, divx, and tons of live concerts in .shn. I basically just throw stuff on it that i dont need on c: It's using fat32 file system. My question is whats the best way to convert the drive to NTFS. Thanks for the help.

 
if you have a CD burner, backup to CD, format drive to NTFS format

if you dont have a CD burner, create a partition on second drive, transfer files to partition, format the other partition in NTFS, repeat as necessary til all of your files are shifted over, but there is the risk you may lose data in the process.

To do the latter, I recommend Partition Magic 7, I did a similar task with problems.
 
C:\>convert /?
Converts 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.



This is the cheapest and easiest way but it creates 512 Byte clusters. Partition Magic lets you make larger clusters.
 
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