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    converting remaining hdd to NTFS safely

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    by dandj4evr ·

    I have Win2k Pro (NTFS) as my boot drive, which makes for the Logical partition on my harddrive (drive d}. Win98 SE is the primary partition (drive c). I know now that Win2k’s drivers for my system are working just fine.
    How do i go about re-formatting that primary partition, converting it to Win2k’s NTFS, while keeping the logical partition.
    Is it possible to change my logical to my primary without fdisk and formatting and re-installing?
    Thx for the help 🙂

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    • #3728970

      converting remaining hdd to NTFS safely

      by joevano ·

      In reply to converting remaining hdd to NTFS safely

      Why not just boot to Win2000 and convert the C: drive to NTFS. You can then delete off the files you no longer need from C:. The command to convert a FAT or FAT32 partition to NTFS is :

      convert drive_letter: /fs:ntfs

      A few gotchas on this though. The first is you can’t convert back (unless you have a 3rd party program, like Partition Magic). The second is that I don’t think (almost 100% positive) Win98 will run on NTFS, so you would be losing that functionality.

    • #3748931

      converting remaining hdd to NTFS safely

      by dmiles ·

      In reply to converting remaining hdd to NTFS safely

      This question poses some traps that if the system is not backed up will be lost.
      You will need to use a third party software if you want to reclaim the hard disk space,to be one drive or do you plan on keeping the partition and convert to NTFS
      WIN2K will read a FAT32 partition,using the disk administrator from the NT window is maybe the way to go.

    • #3730265

      converting remaining hdd to NTFS safely

      by dandj4evr ·

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