<div>Well I'm Windows User & Linux User, I would recommend you to grab second hard drive and backup your files from primary then format primary from fat32 into ntfs then restore your backup files</div>
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<div>if OS installed on primary, then you would have to re-install<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Rich Nagel <<a href="mailto:networkman@triton.net">networkman@triton.net</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I just "googled" the same command in quotes and got the following link at<br>Microsoft's site:<br>
<br><a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307881" target="_blank">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307881</a><br><br>Frankly, were it me, at the very least I'd take an image or make a backup of<br>the partition in question before attempting this conversion command. My<br>
preference though would be to image/backup the data, delete the partition in<br>question and create another natively NTFS (or whatever you want) from the<br>start.<br><font color="#888888"><br>Rich<br></font>
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<div class="Wj3C7c"><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "Michael Mol" <<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>><br>To: <<a href="mailto:grlug@grlug.org">grlug@grlug.org</a>><br>
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 5:06 PM<br>Subject: Re: [GRLUG] fat32 to ntfs<br><br><br>> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Benjamin Flanders <<a href="mailto:flanderb@gmail.com">flanderb@gmail.com</a>><br>> wrote:<br>
>> Short question:<br>>> How can I convert a large partition from fat32 to ntfs without loss of<br>>> data? Basically does changing cluster size reformat the partition?<br>>><br>>> Googleing, I found that fat32 to ntfs is a simple "convert drive<br>
>> letter: /fs:ntfs" this can be done without lose of data.<br>><br>> Is this a Windows command? I hadn't heard of it.<br>><br>> Otherwise, NTFS and FAT32 are fundamentally different; Your best bet<br>
> would be to attack a large external disk to the system, format it as<br>> NTFS, and use cp -ra to copy the files from your FAT32 disk to your<br>> NTFS disk. Then reformat your FAT32 disk as NTFS, and use cp -ra to<br>
> copy the files back.<br>><br>>><br>>> I also found that the optimal cluster sizes of the two file systems<br>>> are different. I can't seem to find any information as to whether<br>>> changing cluster sizes destroys the data in a partition or not.<br>
>><br>><br>> Keyword: optimal.<br>><br>> It doesn't really matter unless you're dealing with millions of really<br>> tiny files. So unless you're in that situation, don't worry about it.<br>
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