TSGL: Fw: Convert FAT32 to NTFS

Fri Feb 9 17:34:23 EST 2007

I agree wholeheartetly with this comment.
Fat32 is faster than NTFS and has the advantages as mentioned.

Len
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "A Hasanat Khan" <hasanat at sparkbd.net>
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Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 12:46 AM
Subject: Re: TSGL: Fw: Convert FAT32 to NTFS

> Dieter,
> I am over 70, and I am not a professional computer man. But I have learnt
> all these as a hobby.
> If it is an external drive, I suggest you leave it with FAT32. You can
then
> connect with another computer which may not have WinXP or Win2000. Win98
> will not read NTFS. NTFS has better security and better disk utilization,
> that is all. FAT 32 is quite all right otherwise.
> If you still want to convert to NTFS, go ahead. MFT will be fragmented
which
> will slow down disk access. But so what?
> Best wishes
> Hasanat
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dieter @ California" <go2dieter at comcast.net>
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> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 10:34 AM
> Subject: TSGL: Fw: Convert FAT32 to NTFS
>
>
> > Hasanat ...
> >
> > My new G: drive is a minature 120GB WD portable drive formatted to
FAT32.
> > It is already in use without any problems.  Since my other C: and D:
> > drives
> > are NTFS, I thought I should convert this new external drive also to
NTFS.
> > Is that really required?  Please, don't lose me with too much technical
> > stuff. When you're pushing 80, there's not much left.
> >
> > Dieter
> >
> > ========================================
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "A Hasanat Khan" <hasanat at sparkbd.net>
> > To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" <list at tsgserver.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 7:53 PM
> > Subject: Re: TSGL: Convert FAT32 to NTFS
> >
> >
> >> 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>
> >> To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" <list at tsgserver.com>
> >> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 8:46 AM
> >> Subject: TSGL: Convert FAT32 to NTFS
> >>
> >>
> >>>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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