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On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 23:57:14 +1100, Albert Alcoceba
<> wrote:

Not even sure of that.

Once you converted to 32Gb NTFS - couldn't you use something like
Partition Magic to dynamically extend it? At least this would give
him the option to move to NTFS without a OS reinstall.

You would probably want to use Partition Magic or the like so convert
the cluster size anyway - if I recall - the convert command only uses
512 byte cluster size - which is a tad small - latest PM version I
think also allows the cluster size to me changed dynamically.

Anyway - some options and food for thought.
Cheers


>Let me rephrase that - if you want to have more than 32GB then you
>can't convert the 32GB FAT and expect to get all the space available
>in NTFS. You will end up with a 32GB NTFS partition. In order to have
>large NTFS partitions (over 32GB) you will need to create the
>partitions from scratch.
>
>Albert
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>On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 00:48:19 +0000, Justin Thompson
><> wrote:
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>>On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 11:38:09 +1100, Albert Alcoceba
>><> wrote:
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>>You are mistaken, see here
>>
>>http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p...convertfat.asp
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>>Look and learn
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>>
>>Cheers
>>
>>
>>>On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 23:12:29 GMT, RDBrimmer <> wrote:
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>>>>I converted it to NTSF still only 32GB.
>>>
>>>
>>>You can't "convert" it to NTFS. You have to delete all partitions on
>>>drive (or write 0's) and then CREATE the partitions as NTFS.
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>Albert Alcoceba
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