Convert FAT32 to NTFS - Bootitng No go

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I have read the following link about converting FAT32 to
NTFS;

http://aumha.org/win5/a/ntfscvt.php

Seems like a pretty good page. However, I can not get
this BOOTITNG.exe to work so I can align my partition so I
have 4kB clusters.

Can anyone give me detailed directions to use this program
(I'm kinda stupid today!)...or even suggest another
program that can do the trick?

Thanks in advance!

Jim
 
Many partitioning programs will allow cluster resizing.
www.paragon-gmbh.com
www.v-com.com
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Todd
I have read the following link about converting FAT32 to
NTFS;

Seems like a pretty good page. However, I can not get
this BOOTITNG.exe to work so I can align my partition so I
have 4kB clusters.
Click to expand...
Can anyone give me detailed directions to use this program
(I'm kinda stupid today!)...or even suggest another
program that can do the trick?
Click to expand...
 
No need to download anything.Go to start/all
programs/accessories/command prompt.type "convert
c: /fs:ntfs".make sure to leave the spaces.If c: isn`t
your drive letter,just change it to whatever it is.
Once this is done,reboot,and it will run
scandisk,then do the conversion
 
Hello Paul,

I have actually tried this previously and ended up with a
512 byte cluster. My disk performance was terrible :-( I
was almost turned off from NTFS altogether, but I found
the performance problem and I'm going to try to correct
it. I just want to have the 4kB clusters so I have better
performance. (By the way, I'm back on FAT32 for now, until
I have a sure fire way of making this conversion work)

I bought partition magic 7.0 a while back to resize a
partition, but I havn't done much with it since. I've
looked at it for this issue, and I can't see a way that it
can force the clusters to be 4kB. Any ideas?

Thanks for the feedback though, very much appresiated!

Jim
 
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paul harries said:
No need to download anything.Go to start/all
programs/accessories/command prompt.type "convert
c: /fs:ntfs".make sure to leave the spaces.If c: isn`t
your drive letter,just change it to whatever it is.
Click to expand...


Although it's true that there's no *need* to download everything, you're apparently unaware that simply doing as you suggest will usually leave you with 512-byte clusters instead of the 4K clusters that you get when you start with NTFS from scratch. And there's a fairly significant performance penalty with having 512-byte clusters.

Read the article referenced below. It explains this well, and also how to solve the problem.

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Ken Blake
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PM 7.0, by their documentation, seems to rely on the Microsoft Convert
utility . So it doesn't do a better conversion, nor does it allow the
cluster resizing.

But why doesn't the BOOTITNG.exe work? Do you get as far as this in the
instructions?:

"Download the BOOTITNG.ZIP file to its own folder, extract the contents
of the ZIP file, then run BOOTITNG.EXE, which will make a bootable
floppy. Boot this floppy. For purposes of Partition Management, there is
no need to install the program to hard disk, so click Cancel Install,
thus entering Maintenance. Click Partition Work. Highlight the partition
you intend to convert. Click Slide, which has an option check box to
Align for NTFS only. Click OK. As it has to move almost every sector on
the entire partition, this will take a very long time — schedule it for a
meal break, or start it to run overnight. (If it finishes quickly, that
probably means that the partition was properly aligned already.)"

Did bootitng.exe make the bootdisk?

Did you successfully boot to bootdisk?

Did you "Click Partition Work. Highlight the partition you intend to
convert. Click Slide, which has an option check box to Align for NTFS
only. Click OK. As it has to move almost every sector on the entire
partition, this will take a very long time — schedule it for a meal
break, or start it to run overnight."

During or after the previous, was there any error message?
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Todd
Hello Paul,
Click to expand...
I have actually tried this previously and ended up with a
512 byte cluster. My disk performance was terrible :-( I
was almost turned off from NTFS altogether, but I found
the performance problem and I'm going to try to correct
it. I just want to have the 4kB clusters so I have better
performance. (By the way, I'm back on FAT32 for now, until
I have a sure fire way of making this conversion work)
Click to expand...
 
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