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Convert fat32 boot drive to ntfs?

Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 8:32 pm
by wvjohn
I should know this , but is there any way to do it? I am getting squeezed by the 32mb or whatever llimit for fat32 drives - want to format new master 80/80 but no can do and still be able to copy fat32 drive ...any ideas?

Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 9:02 pm
by blade

Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 9:03 pm
by smb
yea what he said :)

Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 9:38 pm
by wvjohn
PCAbusers to da Rescue!

thanks

Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 10:12 pm
by wvjohn
naturally it errored out twice while I was trying to run it :(

went like the links said then errored out after restart with a quick message to the screen to the effect the directory may be bad or not enough disk space....too late to investigate now - will try later this week - at the beginining part it appeared there was plenty of diskspace....

Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 10:46 pm
by blade
Perhaps defrag then try. I think I had to do that first with one drive before it worked.

Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 8:55 am
by FlyingPenguin
Do you have Partition Magic 8? That's a safer way to do it in my opinion.

Be aware that the conversion can somtimes go wrong so backup your data.