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Thread ID: 55646	2005-03-16 00:34:00	Coverting to NTFS	Ravage (6815)	Press F1

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334588	2005-03-16 00:34:00	Howdy My dads second hand laptop (Toshiba) has WinXP Pro installed. I was looking through the computer and I noticed that the file system was FAT32 instead of the recommended NTFS. Can you convert the drive to NTFS without losing all the data? He didn't get a disk with the OS on it so I couldn't do a reinstall if the data was lost. How can I tell if the is a hidden partion which my have a recovery partion on it. How do you activate it if there is one? Cheers Ravage	Ravage (6815)
334589	2005-03-16 00:54:00	There is a way to do it, but very tricky. Check out MS Knowledge base at microsoft.com Trevor:)	Trev (427)
334590	2005-03-16 00:56:00	otherwise you need 'partition magic' or a similar prog that'll find ALL the partitions hidden or not and also allow you to convert from fat32 to ntfs no probs........	drcspy (146)
334591	2005-03-16 01:58:00	However, if it works, why not do something really radical: leave well alone. The most common cause of lost data and malfunctioning software is the common urge to "fix" or otherwise "improve" things. ;)	Graham L (2)
334592	2005-03-16 03:10:00	I would leave it alone, althrough its not hard to do just involves one command. You have already given one good reason not to touch it "you dont have the install disks" and if everything was to go wrong at least your current file system is readable by a win98 boot disk which NTFS is not.	beama (111)
334593	2005-03-16 03:19:00	Can't you just go Start/Run/cmd & at the prompt, enter convert c: /fs:ntfs like you do in 2000? :)	Peterj116 (6762)
334594	2005-03-16 03:34:00	Peterj116: Yup :)	Chilling_Silence (9)
334595	2005-03-17 09:41:00	Stick with Fat32. You have a much better range of file managers, tune ups for Fat32 and also can use Dos if you wish.	mzee (3324)
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