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FAT 32 FILES TO NTFS FILES

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by gmlawrence Aug 30, 2002 last reply Sep 30, 2002

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I ORDERED ZDNET'S GUIDE TO USING WINDOWS XP. ON PAGE 11 OF THIS GUIDE IT RECOMENDS THAT YOU SHOULD USE NTFS FILES INSTEAD OF FAT 32 FILES. IT STATES THAT IT IS AN EASY PROCESS BUT I AM UNABLE TO FIND IT ANY WHERE ELSE IN THE BOOK. CAN YOU PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO CHANGE OVER TO NTFS FILES. THANKYOU GUY M. LAWRENCE

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by dmiles Aug 30, 2002

If you have Windows2K installed on a 20gb hard disk that uses FAT32 file system it may not convert when you use the coversion see Microsoft Knowledgebase article Q271644

To Convert Fat32 to NTFS
Click->Start->RUN
Type CMD (Enter)
Type Convert C:/FS:NTFS (Enter)

Follow the on screen instructions to complete the conversion