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Posted on 05-10-04 02:28 AM Link
I have been using other partition tools succefully, and it was something called QTparted (which is very userfriendly ). But that was with a FAT partition.

3rd party tools can be safer than 1st party tools, but then I hadn't heard of any failed case of convert. So it's probably quite safe anyway.
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Posted on 05-10-04 02:40 AM Link
Originally posted by ErkDog
yeah but you can delete the fat32 partition and format it as NTFS inside windows....


Yeah, but he wants to keep his data.
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Posted on 05-10-04 03:46 AM Link
The only problem is that block cluster is the same as FAT32's and not the larger NTFS one for more efficient file access, so read times will be about the same. If you increase cluster size AFTER the conversion it'll be great though.
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Posted on 05-10-04 06:10 AM Link
go buy a CD-R

problem solved
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Posted on 05-10-04 08:27 AM Link
Originally posted by ErkDog
go buy a CD-R

problem solved
How does that solve anything?
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Posted on 05-10-04 08:29 AM Link
maybe he is telling him to backup all his stuff on CD-R and then reinstall the OS...
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Posted on 05-10-04 11:37 AM Link
He's reffering to the inability to backup data... not having a data backup method, yet still considering it in any way important, is an extremely contradictory idealism...
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Posted on 05-11-04 05:17 AM Link
If you can't convert, backing up and formatting is a good option (well, really the only option). Get some cheap (but reliable) CD writer, you can return it when you're done if need be. Buy some CDRWs. Get WinRAR (trial version's fine, though I suggest you get the full version, it's nice), compress everything to RAR with best compression split to 700MB, and copy it to CDRW. (Don't use CDR, it's a waste.)
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Posted on 05-12-04 05:46 AM Link
Originally posted by HyperHacker
Get WinRAR (trial version's fine, though I suggest you get the full version, it's nice), compress everything to RAR with best compression split to 700MB, and copy it to CDRW. (Don't use CDR, it's a waste.)
WinRAR sucks. Get 7-Zip, better compression and it's free.
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Posted on 05-12-04 07:11 AM Link
well I ended up using the convert thing in the dos prompt, and it worked, not alot of difference though, but atleast nothing is gone...

I wouldnt use winrar, or 7-zip I use Power Archiver.....I think its the best...if anyone wants they can close this thread or if people still wanna talk here, its not up to me so.....
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Posted on 05-12-04 07:56 AM Link
since you created it...if you say so...

anyways, I use the zip support in WinXP...i'm too lazy to install any of the other software unless I download stuff in a non ZIP file...which rarely happens
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