NTFS conversion

[walleys]

I recently upgraded a system from WinME (no snickering!) to XP. In the upgrade (from XP Pro Full version CD) my drive formatting was maintained as FAT32. I understand this, if I had done a fresh install NTFS would have been an option, but I wanted to hang on to my old ME system files until I was sure the upgrade was going to work. Now that I've decided to keep XP on this system is there a way to convert to NTFS without starting over and reformatting this drive?

 

[Didou]

Hi there walleys,

Here's a thread on the subject on the old forums -> Changing my FAT32 drive in XP

Have a nice read & a nice stay on the forums.

 

[Phantasm66]

open command prompt

convert c: /FS:NTFS

(where c: is the drive to be converted)

will do the trick!

Best of luck from the Sith!

 

[walleys]

Great! Thanks for the help. It worked perfectly. Now my C: drive is NTFS. New question: My D: partition is still FAT32 and I can't seem to get the command prompt to convert it to NTFS as well without an error or bad command message. Any ideas?

 

[Rick]

Originally posted by walleys
Great! Thanks for the help. It worked perfectly. Now my C: drive is NTFS. New question: My D: partition is still FAT32 and I can't seem to get the command prompt to convert it to NTFS as well without an error or bad command message. Any ideas?

Type in

[FONT=courier new]chkdsk D:[/FONT]

This will check and repair your disk for errors.