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  1. 8th Jan 2004 07:23 #1
    dxj40c
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    I fell asleep at the wheel somewhere when I was installing hard drives, (2-80GB Maxtors). When I installed them I ended up with C: being Fat32, and D: being NTFS. WinXP OS. I spent about 2 months getting all my programs configured to (almost) perfection before realizing this.

    I made a Ghost backup of C: on D:, then reformated the C: drive to NTFS. When I restored the backup back to C:, it reverted back to Fat32.

    Is there a way to switch this drive (C:) to NTFS without having to reinstall and reconfiguring everything? I have no problem moving files from drive to drive but Fat32 limits me to 2GB video files (I think). Perhaps another backup utility will work. Any suggestions?
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  2. 8th Jan 2004 08:14 #2
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    Open a Command Prompt and type convert d: /fs:ntfs This will convert FAT to NTFS without losing any data.
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    Shouldn't that be convert c: /fs:ntfs ??
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  4. 8th Jan 2004 08:29 #4
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    fat32 limits filesizes to 4GB, although some specific programs impliment a 2GB size limit for video files.
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