Unable to convert to NTSF

[Guest]

Hi everyone,

I am trying to convert a drive from FAT32 to NTSF. When I enter the convert
command (convert c: /fs:ntsf) I keep getting the followig message:

Conversion from FAT32 volume to NTSF volume is not available

I thought I might not have enough disk space, but I have 600+ MB of disk
space in the 8 GB hard drive.

I read on another post about running bootitng, but unfortunately I can't
because this laptop doesn't have a floppy drive.

Ultimately, what I am trying to achive is merge the two partitions on the
drive. This laptop has it's 16GB drive split into two 8 GB partitions (one
FAT and one NTSF -- no clue why!).

I thought I would first convert the FAT drive to NTSF and then use a
partition uility to merge the two partitions into a single one so I can end
up with a single 16GB NTSF drive.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

Jose

 

[R. McCarty]

Go slowly & carefully ! - What you're trying to do can end up
badly. DO NOT PROCEED unless you've got a VERIFIED
image of your current Windows volume.

Likely the FATxx partition is the notebook's Recovery volume.

||-----FATxx-----||-----NTFS----||
^Recovery ^Windows

You really need a Disk Management program such as Acronis
Disk Director. The correct approach is to remove the FATxx
volume leaving Unallocated space. Then extend the existing NTFS
volume to include that Unallocated space. This may affect booting
to XP as the Boot.Ini file may point to an incorrect partition #.
To resolve that would require a Recovery Console session and
use the BootCfg command with a /Rebuild qualifier.

 

[Guest]

Try using NTFS rather than NTSF.

- John

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hi everyone,

I am trying to convert a drive from FAT32 to NTSF. When I enter the convert
command (convert c: /fs:ntsf) I keep getting the followig message:

Conversion from FAT32 volume to NTSF volume is not available

I thought I might not have enough disk space, but I have 600+ MB of disk
space in the 8 GB hard drive.

I read on another post about running bootitng, but unfortunately I can't
because this laptop doesn't have a floppy drive.

Ultimately, what I am trying to achive is merge the two partitions on the
drive. This laptop has it's 16GB drive split into two 8 GB partitions (one
FAT and one NTSF -- no clue why!).

I thought I would first convert the FAT drive to NTSF and then use a
partition uility to merge the two partitions into a single one so I can end
up with a single 16GB NTSF drive.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

Jose

I suspect your drive is too full. A good drive should at all times have
20% spare capacity. Yours has less than 8%. Moving the paging
file to drive D: might already give you the breathing space you need.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Try using NTFS rather than NTSF.

- John

Nicely spotted!

 

[Guest]

DUH!!! Thanks guys. I can't believe I was such an idiot. It worked great!!!

Jose