TSGL: Convert FAT32 to NTFS

[The Computer Whisperer]

Dieter,

If you go into My Computer, right click your G drive, select "properties",
then the first thing you should see when the window pops up is the drive
name, at the very top of the window. if it is blank, the drive has no name.

Regards,

Justin

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On 09/02/07, A Hasanat Khan <hasanat at sparkbd.net> wrote:
>
> Dieter,
>
> The volume label is nothing but the NAME given to that partition, which is
> found next to the drive letter, G. If there is no name, just leave it
> blank.
>
> However, converting from fat32 to NTFS is not that simple.*I have just
> converted all my partitions, and steps have to be taken to prevent
> fragmenting of the Master File Table (MFT). I came across the procedure in
> the handbook, Windows XP Inside Out, by Bott and Siechert.
>
> I quote, abbreviating the procedure,
>
> 1, Defragment the drive, with consolidating free space.
> 2. Calculate the size of the MFT, roughly 12.5% of drive size.
> 3. Use the fsutil command to create a contiguous file in the root drive.
> equal in size to the MFT size. For example type in the command prompt
> 'fsutil file createnew g:\testfile.txt 1250000000'  The last number is the
> calculated size of the MFT in BYTES. This will create a new contiguous
> file
> of the calculated MFT size named testfile.txt in the drive.
> 4. This will not run if a contiguous space of the correct size is not
> available on the drive. In that case you will have to go back and
> defragment
> again, or delete some files if the drive is nearly full. The NTFS file
> system does use a lot of space for the MFT
> 4. Run the convert command, using the following syntax
> ' convert g: /fs:ntfs /cvtarea:testfile.txt
> 5. If necessary, restart.
> You do not say what the size of the drive is, or I could have calculated
> the
> MFT size.
>
> As I said I have converted all my drives this way and everything is all
> right.
>
> Best of luck
>
> Hasanat
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dieter @ California" <go2dieter at comcast.net>
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> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 8:46 AM
> Subject: TSGL: Convert FAT32 to NTFS
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>
> >I want to convert my external G: drive from FAT32 to NTFS.  After ...
> >CONVERT G: /fs:ntfs ... it asks me to ... enter the current volume label
> >for Drive G:.  I don't understand the question.  What precisely is it I
> >have to enter?
> >
> > I tried to name the drive ... External Drive G: ... but that doesn't
> work.
> >
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