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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
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- From: robertre@microsoft.com (Robert Reichel ms2)
- Subject: Re: convert documentation
- Message-ID: <1993Jan04.231429.16428@microsoft.com>
- Date: 04 Jan 93 23:14:29 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corp.
- References: <1992Dec29.084028.1801@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
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- In article <1992Dec29.084028.1801@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> c263-ah@cs.berkeley.edu (Class Account) writes:
- >How do I convert a FAT filesystem to an NT filesystem? I know this thread
- >came up before but I seem to have misplaced my saved copy or missed saving it.
- >Better yet, is there some place where I can find documentation on the
- >convert command? I ordered the $399 printed doc set, but that didn't include
- >the enduser documentation (did anyone get this?) and the files on the
- >CDROM in doc/enduser did not give the parameters for convert.
-
- convert d: /fs:ntfs
-
- If it can't lock the drive for exclusive access (like, if you're paging
- to it) convert will offer to do its stuff for you on your next boot.
-
- Notes:
- 1) You have to be logged on as Administrator for this to work.
-
- 2) This is a one way trip. We haven't seen a convert failure in a long
- time, but backup everything.
-
- 3) The disk has to have at least 20% or so free space. Convert builds
- all the necessary on disk NTFS structures in the free space before
- it throws the big switch.
-
- 4) Don't convert your boot partition if you are running a Mips system.
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- * "Not even close to being a Microsoft spokesbeing"
- * Robert Reichel (robertre@microsoft.com)
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