Ntfs???

[djbasics]

Hi

Can someone explain to me how i can format my drive to NTFS?

Thanks

[Doom9]

wrong forum and you should use a better title

[MaTTeR]

The NT/Win2k and WinXP installers offer this to you up on the time of installation.

Partiton Magic comes to mind as well.

[nikthebak]

You can convert your partitions into NTFS with either Partition Magic or with a built-in Windows NT utility.

The utility resides in your WINNT\SYSTEM32 directory and is named CONVERT.EXE. It converts FAT/FAT32's to NTFS's with the following command line:

convert [drive letter] /FS:NTFS

For example in Windows 2000, converting drive D:

Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> Command Prompt
C:\>cd\winnt\system32
C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\>convert d: /FS:NTFS

Wait few seconds and voilá! :D

[alx]

I have a dual boot with w98/w2k........and I recently had to convert one drive to ntfs because of the limit of 4 gb for FAT32.........dvd stuff, you know...he he he....but, besides "ntfsfor98", i couldn´t find any other program to "see" this drive in w98.......

Does anyone knows another program???
Thanks
Alx.

[sarahjh69]

congratulations
if you really converted your fat32 partition to NTFS
you will have most likely halfed the performance of your HD.
lets hope you meant you had reformatted and created a new NTFS
partition and not run the naff old conversion option that
choose a really silly NTFS cluster size by default!

[alx]

sarahjh69 really thanks for your advice....i will have it in mind.
BTW, don´t you know another program to "see" ntfs partitions in w98?

Alx.

[zub144]

I seem to remeber that there is a program called NTFS for Win98-try to do a search on Google.

[alx]

Thank you zub144 for your advice, but, as i said early, that was the program that i been using for a while......it is buggy, slow the access and the one that you can get from the official page only let me READ data on a ntfs hdd...

Alx.