Win2000 NTFS and FAT32

yurij_14 · Post by **yurij_14** » Thu Feb 08, 2001 9:45 pm

If i've chosen in the win2k install to have win2k install using fat32, is there any way to change to NTFS without re-installing win2k?

A_old · Post by **A_old** » Thu Feb 08, 2001 10:51 pm

why would u want to that bad? not that i know of btw..

Prey521 · Post by **Prey521** » Thu Feb 08, 2001 11:29 pm

If you use Partition Magic 6, then you won't have to re-install Win2K.

hoov · Post by **hoov** » Fri Feb 09, 2001 9:32 am

You can do it easily:

In Windows NT or 2000, how do I convert a FAT partition to an NTFS partition?
At the Windows NT or 2000 command prompt, enter:

convert X:/fs:ntfs
Replace X with the drive letter of the FAT partition you are converting. You will have to reboot your computer for the changes to take effect.

For more information regarding this procedure, search on article ID number Q214579 at the Microsoft knowledge base site:

http://search.support.microsoft.com/kb/z.asp

yurij_14 · Post by **yurij_14** » Fri Feb 09, 2001 2:56 pm

Originally posted by Amro:
why would u want to that bad? not that i know of btw..

The NFTS is alot more superior to FAT32.
Some of the features are:

File-level and Folder-level security
Disk Compression
Disk Quotas
File Encryption

It makes things more controllable if you are running on a network with users other then yourself.