Sorry i meant to have ask earlier, how long does it take ? i know it depends on certain aspect,is is many hours, should i do it over night.
Thanks.
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Sorry i meant to have ask earlier, how long does it take ? i know it depends on certain aspect,is is many hours, should i do it over night.
Thanks.
Depends on drive size, speed etc - but not long. Took an 80gig laptop drive < than 45 mintutes last week.
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With all do respect to Tony who I like by the way , how the fuck does this fit in Filesharing topic ? Where's the mods to merge or move a topic ? Kissing ass in BT I suspect .
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NTFS offers the following advantages over FAT32:
Recovery. NTFS volumes can recover from disk errors more readily than FAT32 volumes. If a system fails, NTFS uses log files and checkpoint information to restore a file system.
Security. NTFS volumes allow you to restrict access to files and folders using permissions. Windows XP Professional users can also use file encryption to protect data.
Click Start, Run, type CMD, and then hit ENTER.
Then to convert the C: drive, for example, to NTFS, type:
CONVERT C: /FS:NTFS and hit the ENTER key.
The conversion won’t occur until you reboot the computer. This is perfectly normal.
It will also ask for a Volume name - this is the name you give the Drive..
Another feature of NTFS is that it can contain individual file sizes greater that 4 point something GB's. I guess they never thought there'd be individual files that size back when they developed FAT32.
I had to convert my external hard drive to NTFS so that I could store DVD images on it but it was dead easy follow the method above. I backed everything up first thou.
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You're right, peat.Originally Posted by peat moss
With all do respect to Tony who I like by the way , how the fuck does this fit in Filesharing topic ? Where's the mods to merge or move a topic ? Kissing ass in BT I suspect .
/moved
Wait a minute...
What are you talking about?
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You cannot convert C while you are running windows. You can convert D or E from within windows and unless any of your apps that are running run from D or E it would not matter if you have something running.
You cannot convert C from a dos prompt with say a win98 boot floppy because it doesn't have that capability. Typically what would be the case is your old drive C, running win 98 or XP fat32, would be removed from the system, a new hard drive is mounted and XP ntfs is installed. Then and only then do you hookup the old drive which will become D and from within windows running on C open the run box and convert D to ntfs.
If your C drive is still fat32 and your running XP you can convert it with a restart but you will have to write down the Volume name before you restart. Thats the name that shows up in Windows Explorer for the C drive.
Last edited by Appzalien; 03-10-2007 at 08:44 PM.
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Just one thing to keep in mind.
If you format your external hard drive with NTFS, it can not be read or written to by any mac computers.
I had a few problems with this when I wanted to edit some of my film with a certain effect in FinalCutPro, but I was unable to get my drive to be read.
But other than that, I don't see a downside to formatting to NTFS. And the 4GB+ file sizes are a deal breaker for me. My raw footage gets up to 20+GB a file.
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Would be way easier to use something like partition magic or acronis partition thingy to convert it. They will do it either way with a restart.
I also thought xp could convert ntfs to fat32 without a restart but I might be wrong, it's been soooooooo long since I did that.
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