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Hardisk to NTFS problem
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14/01/1999 22:00:48
 
 
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Windows
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I have a dual boot: 1st physical drive 2.1GB with 4 X 500 MB FAT partitions, 2nd physical drive 6.4GB NTFS. Win95 on C, WinNT on D (2nd drive). Which one is the boot partition here for NT? C or D?

Vlad

>>I am new to NT, I had a 6.4G of hardisk space which I hope to convert from FAT16 to NTFS. I had tried to use disk administrator without any successful in converting the current 2G of FAT16 to 6.4G of NTFS diskspace.
>>Unless I use partition magic to do. Did I miss out any thing, please advise how can I change it from 2G of FAT16 to 6.4G of NTFS. Thank in advance.
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>Your boot partition under NT cannot be larger than 4GB; it's a limitation of the loader, even though NTFS will support huge partition sizes. You can convert your existing partition from FAT to NTFS using the NT command line utility CONVERT; to change to NTFS, enter the command:
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>CONVERT C: /FS:NTFS
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>You'll need to reboot after running CONVERT. Once the drive is converted to NTFS, you can expand it by creating a Volume Set using the Disk Administrator tool. Your system partition is limited to a 4GB size, For details on alternatives in allocating disk space, you might want to check John Savill's NT FAQ
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>Partition Magic will allow you to make a contiguous, single NTFS volume of maximum supportable size without the need to create a volume set.
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