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    NTFS convert questions

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by SCU33ZE, Sep 24, 2006.

  1. SCU33ZE

    SCU33ZE Newbie

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    Hello everyone,
    I have a few question regarding the conversion of FAT32 to NTFS.
    here goes...

    Will i lose all my information in the conversion to NTFS 4k?
    Aso, when the drive is converted.. if i do a reinistall with the asus recovery disk will my partitions still be formatted in NTFS 4k or will they go back to the yucky FAT32?
    I ask this because i tought the conversion to NTFS was one way.. like you cant go back to FAT...
    model is W3j

    Thanks in advance!
     
    SCU33ZE, Sep 24, 2006
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  2. Airman

    Airman Band of Gypsys NBR Reviewer

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    Yes, you will lose your information on the HD if you convert it to NTFS from FAT32. I'm not entirely sure wheather it will go to back to FAT32 after the recovery disc is used, because it may have an option to use FAT32 or NTFS, when the recovery program is activated. If it does, then select NTFS ;)
     
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  3. mikedc

    mikedc Newbie

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    I've never lost data using the convert command. I can't say whether it uses 4k clusters, but it probably does.

    The command would be (from a command prompt) : convert c: /fs:ntfs

    Reinstalling from the recovery disk would put it back the way it originally came (FAT32).
     
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  4. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    No. All the files will remain the way they are.

    Any partitions affected by the recovery process will go back to FAT32. The conversion is irreversible; however, recovery reformats partitions and completely replaces the file system, hence the convertibility issue is nil. :)

    And no, the possibility of selecting NTFS does not exist when recovering, the OS partition will always be formatted FAT32. You can, however, only overwrite the first partition on the disk and keep data partitions intact.

    This is completely incorrect! For God's sake, do at least a minimal verification of the information you "helpfully" post here, there are unknowleadgeable people who will believe you and you might lead them into trouble...

    On the OS partition, if converted directly, it will use 512 bytes clusters. See http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=79123&page=2 for example. And there is are many places on this forum where this issue is discussed, use the Search field...
     
    E.B.E., Sep 24, 2006
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