Converting to NTFS

[Starr Corbin]

I have recently changed my drive from basic to a dynamic
disk and want to create volumes. I have tried to using
Disk Manager, but am not able to. I also want to convert
from a FAT 32 to NTFS and am having trouble converting.
How can I create volumes on my 80 Gb Hardrive, and convert
to NTFS when I have been using this hardrive for a while.
This is not a fresh restart.

Starr

 

[Nicholas]

Why did you convert your disk from basic to dynamic?
It serves no useful purpose for a one drive system.
One cannot create new volumes on a drive that is not completely empty.
The only thing you can do now is convert to NTFS.

CONVERTING FAT32 to NTFS
in Windows XP
(by Alex Nichol, MS-MVP)
http://www.aumha.org/a/ntfscvt.htm

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Nicholas

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| I have recently changed my drive from basic to a dynamic
| disk and want to create volumes. I have tried to using
| Disk Manager, but am not able to. I also want to convert
| from a FAT 32 to NTFS and am having trouble converting.
| How can I create volumes on my 80 Gb Hardrive, and convert
| to NTFS when I have been using this hardrive for a while.
| This is not a fresh restart.
|
| Starr

 

[Alex Nichol]

I have recently changed my drive from basic to a dynamic
disk and want to create volumes. I have tried to using
Disk Manager, but am not able to. I also want to convert
from a FAT 32 to NTFS and am having trouble converting.
How can I create volumes on my 80 Gb Hardrive, and convert
to NTFS when I have been using this hardrive for a while.
This is not a fresh restart.

If you have made it a dynamic drive you have to clear it down totally
and start over to get away from that and back to normal use where
separate volumes have meaning