Convert FAT32 to NTFS

[James Lee]

Anyone know how much memory is needed to convert a 372 GB disk? When I try
on my P4 3 GHz with 512 mb of RAM and 70 Gigs free on the disk I get an
insufficient memory error.
Thanks,

 

[Richard Urban]

How did you try to convert the disk? What program did you use?

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Regards,

Richard Urban

Quote from: George Ankner
"If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!"

 

[James Lee]

I used the convert program in xp.

How did you try to convert the disk? What program did you use?

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Regards,

Richard Urban

Quote from: George Ankner
"If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!"

 

[Guest]

boot from the xp cd, delete partition, create partition, format using ntfs.

is that' what you've tried already?

 

[James Lee]

No...this is a working PC. I want to keep the 300 GBs of data. I should be
able to do this with the convert program. I did a lot of searching and found
a warning that required a user to increase from 64 MB to 128MB for disks
larger then 40 GB or you get an insufficient memory error and the convert
fails. I have 512 MB and I am getting the same error so I want to confirm
if/how much more RAM I need.

 

[Alan Smith]

Try the partition magic one if you can. If you check the website/faq's there
may be some info there, or email tech support. I've had no problems when
using it to convert, far better than the Windows thing, never lost any data
or had any issues when using it. ymmv

 

[James Lee]

Website says it only supports drives up to 300 GB. Mine is 370 GB!

 

[WTC]

Anyone know how much memory is needed to convert a 372 GB disk? When I
try on my P4 3 GHz with 512 mb of RAM and 70 Gigs free on the disk I
get an insufficient memory error.

Are you sure you get an "insufficient memory error" instead of this
one....

"Insufficient Disk Space for Conversion" Error Message When You Convert
a Disk from FAT to NTFS in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=323563

 

[James Lee]

It definitely says insufficient memory.

Are you sure you get an "insufficient memory error" instead of this
one....

"Insufficient Disk Space for Conversion" Error Message When You Convert a
Disk from FAT to NTFS in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=323563

 

[Lil' Dave]

The obvious question is how much free physical space (RAM) do you have
immediately before starting the convert.exe program? Is any of that free
physical memory reserved by any other application?

 

[James Lee]

How would I tell? The convert program runs after a reboot and I assume
before anything else is loaded. I think I'm going to try going to 1 GHz RAM
and see what happens.