WindowsME to XP Profesional

[Otuatail]

Can anyone help me here. I have upgraded WindowME to WindowsXP
profesional, but the partitions are still Fat32 not NTFS Is there a way of
changing this.

Paul.

P.S I have Partition magic 4
Will this work on NTFS

 

[Rob Schneider]

Can anyone help me here. I have upgraded WindowME to WindowsXP
profesional, but the partitions are still Fat32 not NTFS Is there a way of
changing this.

Paul.

P.S I have Partition magic 4
Will this work on NTFS

XP provides a program to do this. Search "help" for "convert FAT32
NTFS" for instructions.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Sure -

From a command line -

convert c: /fs:ntfs

(c: or d: or whatever)

For the system volume, you will need to restart the computer so it can do
the conversion on bootup into Windows.

 

[Ken Blake]

In

Can anyone help me here. I have upgraded WindowME to WindowsXP
profesional, but the partitions are still Fat32 not NTFS Is there a
way of changing this.

To convert to NTFS, you use the CONVERT command. But first read
http://www.aumha.org/a/ntfscvt.htm because there's an issue
regarding cluster size that isn't obvious.

Also note that conversion is a big step, affecting everything on
your drive. When you take such a big step, no matter how
unlikely, it is always possible that something could go wrong.
For that reason, it's prudent to make sure you have a backup of
anything you can't afford to lose before begining.

 

[Nick Luck]

Paul

In XP Pro, Right Click on My Computer, go into disk management and right
click the drive you need to convert.

Nick

 

[randwulf57]

Otuatail:
HOW TO: Convert a FAT16 or FAT32 Volume to NTFS in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307881&Product=winxp

 

[Yves Leclerc]

BTW: Partition Magic 4 will not work with XP. XP has a new NTFS structure.

Y.