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Convert To NTFS question

#1 shovmyfist

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Posted 06 January 2002 - 11:10 PM

I have a C & D hard drive (2 seperate hard drivers) & the c drive is NTFS but D is FAT 32 i want to convert D to NTFS but when i use the commad convert D: /fs:ntfs it gives me an error saying "Convert Is not Available for RAW drives".

#2 CUViper

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Posted 07 January 2002 - 01:11 PM

If you've got the drive space, copy your files from D to C and reformat the drive as NTFS. This will be better anyway, because you won't be stuck with 512-byte clusters.

If you don't have the space, you'll have to use a third-party utility, like Partition Magic.