NTFS

HI, I am haveing troubles with my 2nd hard drive it was a
NTFS system type but now it is a FAT32 and everytime i
move files on it or somthing it goes to a blue screen and
say's

Dumping memory core
If you have seen this screen 1 or more times than please
run chkdsk /f to see if there is any corrup.

or something like that is there any way i could change it
back because it is very annoying thank in advanced.

You can not revert back from NTFS to FAT#@. How did you
get FAT32 on this drive? If you replaced this drive, you
will have to go into the registry and change several
settings.

>-----Original Message-----
>HI, I am haveing troubles with my 2nd hard drive it was

a

>NTFS system type but now it is a FAT32 and everytime i
>move files on it or somthing it goes to a blue screen

and

>say's
>
>Dumping memory core
>If you have seen this screen 1 or more times than please
>run chkdsk /f to see if there is any corrup.
>
>or something like that is there any way i could change

it

>back because it is very annoying thank in advanced.
>.
>

"Jim" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:071601c3985c$bb92a930$a401280a@phx.gbl...

> You can not revert back from NTFS to FAT#@. How did you
> get FAT32 on this drive?

He could have gone back to FAT32 by re-partitioning and formatting the drive
or using a third-party solution such as Partition Magic :-)

> If you replaced this drive, you
> will have to go into the registry and change several
> settings.

> a

> and

> it

I'd like to convert my current boot partition from FAT32 to
NTFS, but my old verions of Partition Magic doesn't offer
that particular conversion. I can use PMagic OK even for
XP so long as I boot from floppy even though it doesn't
know about W2K and XP. If I were to use it to create an
NTFS partition, is there some way I could transfer the
contents of my current boot partition on to the new NTFS
and finally delete the old FAT32

Open a Command Prompt window and enter CONVERT /?

Also see:

http://www.aumha.org/a/ntfscvt.htm

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<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I'd like to convert my current boot partition from FAT32 to
> NTFS, but my old verions of Partition Magic doesn't offer
> that particular conversion. I can use PMagic OK even for
> XP so long as I boot from floppy even though it doesn't
> know about W2K and XP. If I were to use it to create an
> NTFS partition, is there some way I could transfer the
> contents of my current boot partition on to the new NTFS
> and finally delete the old FAT32

The cmd would be:CONVERT F: /FS:ntfs
F: being the drive to convert.
To open cmd,go to run,type:cmd
The new window is cmd prompt

>-----Original Message-----
>I'd like to convert my current boot partition from FAT32

to

>NTFS, but my old verions of Partition Magic doesn't offer
>that particular conversion. I can use PMagic OK even for
>XP so long as I boot from floppy even though it doesn't
>know about W2K and XP. If I were to use it to create an
>NTFS partition, is there some way I could transfer the
>contents of my current boot partition on to the new NTFS
>and finally delete the old FAT32
>.
>

I AM CONSIDERING UPGRADEING MY "C" DRIVE TO NTFS FROM
FAT32. MY QUESTION IS WILL I USE MORE DRIVE SPACE BY
UPGRADEING TO NTFS. IF SO A GUESS AS TO HOW MUCH WOULD
HELP.

THANX ES

NTFS uses smaller cluster sizes than does FAT32, which makes more efficient use of hard drives space when using small files are stored.

FAT32 uses a 32 sectors per cluster if the hard drive is 32gb or bigger, 16 sectors from 16-23 gb hard drives, 8 sectors for 8-16GB

NTFS uses 4 sector per cluster on hard drives larger the 1gb.

If the hard drive is bigger then 32G

FAT32 uses 32 sectors per cluste
NTFS uses 4 sector

FAT32 will have more slack (wasted non-usable space) then NTFS saving files to the hard drive.

>-----Original Message-----
>NTFS uses smaller cluster sizes than does FAT32, which

makes more efficient use of hard drives space when using
small files are stored.

>
>FAT32 uses a 32 sectors per cluster if the hard drive is

32gb or bigger, 16 sectors from 16-23 gb hard drives, 8
sectors for 8-16GB.

>
>NTFS uses 4 sector per cluster on hard drives larger the

1gb.

>.
>Thanx for your help Sue looks like I can save some space

with the more efficient use of space.
ES