Conversion

[David Taylor]

Has anyone had negative effects from converting from FAT32 for security
purposes? Can this be done without having to reformat and lose all your
data?

David

 

[Steve Robertson]

David-

The Convert utility is very reliable and was the only way to get a drive to
be NTFS through Windows NT 4. (You started with a FAT 16 drive and used
Convert to change it to NTFS, files and all.) I've never heard of anyone
losing files in the process.

It is a text mode utility so be careful to get the command exactly right.
Start a command prompt and type

convert /?

to get all the particulars. Your command assuming you are converting your C:
drive would be-

convert c: /fs:ntfs

Good luck,
S

 

[rifleman]

Has anyone had negative effects from converting from FAT32 for security
purposes? Can this be done without having to reformat and lose all your
data?

David

there should be no ill effects whatsoever. But backup anyway.

 

[GSV Three Minds in a Can]

Has anyone had negative effects from converting from FAT32 for security
purposes? Can this be done without having to reformat and lose all your
data?

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

 

[Alex Nichol]

Has anyone had negative effects from converting from FAT32 for security
purposes? Can this be done without having to reformat and lose all your
data?

It can result in getting 512 byte clusters, which is not good. See
www.aumha.org/win5/a/ntfscvt.htm for how to avoid this