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    NTFS issue

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Ognen_Demon, Apr 17, 2006.

  1. Ognen_Demon

    Ognen_Demon Newbie

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    Hello,

    I've got an Acer Aspire 3023WLMi in december and discovered that my hard drive is FAT32 formated ( I expected NTFS ). Anyway I converted the second partition, using "convert" to NTFS successfully, but it refuses to convert the primary partition, guess because the currently booted system is there. Also some friend told me it is not "healthy" for the data to do this. Is this so really?

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    Ognen_Demon, Apr 17, 2006
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  2. eatonop

    eatonop Notebook Consultant

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    it may be that the primary partition you are referring to is the recovery partition in which case windows would not convert it. you could however re-partition the workable partition (OS partition) to have an additional extended/logical partition. but you would need a hard disk partition utility for that (partition magic, hard disk manager).
     
    eatonop, Apr 17, 2006
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