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    updating to vista right now but need help dual-booting

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Emerican_Idiot, May 10, 2007.

  1. Emerican_Idiot

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    i select the partition I want which is local d, but it says it needs to be installed where the driver was formatted to NTFS. What do I do?
     
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    Format your D drive to NTFS? It should give you the choice to format during installation. If you don't have any important files on your D drive, just format it to NTFS. Otherwise you might want to conver it using the command:
    convert D: /fs:ntfs
    in command prompt.
     
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    i did the command one it says enter current volume lable for this drive. what's that?
     
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    then press enter
     
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    lol I just formatted it, hopefully it will work.
     
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