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Bill Ridgeway
Is it considered safe to convert a FAT32 volume to NTFS (having first made a
backup, of course)?
Bill Ridgeway
backup, of course)?
Bill Ridgeway
Bill said:Is it considered safe to convert a FAT32 volume to NTFS (having first made
a backup, of course)?
Bill said:Is it considered safe to convert a FAT32 volume to NTFS (having
first made a backup, of course)?
Shenan Stanley said:Exactly what you said, reverse the first two words and change the question
mark to a period.
Bill said:Is it considered safe to convert a FAT32 volume to NTFS (having first made a
backup, of course)?
Bill Ridgeway
I've yet to have the conversion process go wrong. A powercut could
be serious, though. So don't try it whilst Thor is doing his
hammer-workout!
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Bill said:The consensus of opinion confirms my view that it IS safe to
convert a FAT32 volume to NTFS. OK now that's been established now
for the crunch question. I converted my Garmin SatNav (mass storage
device) in the expectation it would increase the speed of operation
- as it normally does. The outcome was a SatNav which failed to
boot up. I can only assume that the cause was the conversion to
NTFS - unless, by co-incidence, something else was in play.
Is there something peculiar to mass storage devices that would
cause this problem?
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