BIOS changing

No,the conversion of the file system is not automated or listed in the BIOS configuration

You will need to use the Convert.exe to convert a Partition to NTFS

See:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q214/5/79.ASP

Hi

BIOS defined the geometry information of the hard disk and size by translation modes (LAB, Normal, CHS) for IDE hard disks.But not file system type.
SCSI hard disks are controlled by the internal SCSI bios on the host adapter.SCSI by its nature uses logical block addressing (LBA) to address devices, and does not rely on the system BIOS for geometry information as IDE/ATA does.

The file system is done on all the hard disk or part of it wich is called partion which define logical diskand partions.
A file system is the way in which files are named and where they are placed logically for storage and retrieval.
Different operating systems use different kinds of file systems to manage data.on the other hand for compatibility reasons some work with more than one file system type and others work only with their own file system.There are other add on special type of file systems such as Network File System (NFS) and the Andrew file system (AFS).

The PC operating systems suchas DOS/Win95 (FAT16), Win95OEM/Win98/SE/ME(FAT16/32/,Win/NT (FAT16,NTFS),WIn2k/XP(FAT16,NTFS,NTFS version 5), OS/2 (HPFS), and UNIX (UNIX file system) and LINUX (LINUX file system), Apple Macintosh (MAC OS), and UNIX-based operating systems (UNIX file system) all have file systems in which files are placed somewhere in a hierarchical (tree) structure. A file is placed in a directory or folder in Windows or subdirectory at the desired place in the tree structure.In Win2k and WinXP new technologyis defined in formating hard disk basic and dynamic.Depending on your operating system you can convert to NTFS using convert.exe.

Good luck

Mohamed