I decided to convert my 40GB C drive today but kind of fell at the first hurdle. I have detailed instructions on how to do this which are here http://aumha.org/win5/a/ntfscvt.php and the first thing it says to do is to realign the partition so that I don't end up with 512 byte clusters. For this I used BootitNG. I ran the program from a floppy, entered maintenance mode, highlighted the partition I wanted to convert, clicked the Slide option and checked the box to Align for NTFS only. I clicked start and expected it to take a while but it finished straight away. I assumed that the partition may already be aligned for NTFS but when I checked the drives properties, the cluster size was 32 bytes which is the same as it was before I tried to realign the partition instead of 4KB which it should have been after the realignment.
So now I'm not sure if I should continue with the conversion or if I messed things up somewhere. I followed the instructions to the letter.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Cheers.
Si
:bounce:
So now I'm not sure if I should continue with the conversion or if I messed things up somewhere. I followed the instructions to the letter.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Cheers.
Si
:bounce: