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    help with fat to ntfs conversion

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by ray32, Sep 23, 2005.

  1. ray32

    ray32 Newbie

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    Hello - i am kinda new here and am looking for some help. i have a new acer 4402 and want to convert the existing fat32 partitioned drive to one ntfs drive. i would bet somebody around here has done this! i am new to this sort of project and would appreciate some direction such as what program to use to do this, steps
    involved, etc....thanks alot.
     
    ray32, Sep 23, 2005
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    miner Notebook Nobel Laureate

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  3. Charles P. Jefferies

    Charles P. Jefferies Lead Moderator Super Moderator

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    It's easy!

    I did it with mine as soon as I found out that it was a FAT32 file system...I still have no idea why Acer formats their drives with FAT...it is so outdated and just...bad. :p

    Here is a link on how to do it!
     
    Charles P. Jefferies, Sep 23, 2005
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    excellent! thanks!
     
    ray32, Sep 23, 2005
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