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Way to turn NTFS back to FAT32

Discussion in 'Legacy Windows' started by Lee, 2002/01/26.

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  1. 2002/01/26
    Lee

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    After I converted to NTFS I noticed my computer runs a lot slower and locks up more often. From what I've read, NTFS is supposed to prevent that, but it made it worse. So is there a way to convert back to FAT32?
     
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  2. 2002/01/27
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    Normally no, but partition magic 6.0 provides a way to do this.
     
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    Lee

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    Is it free, if yes, where can I download it?
     
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    Lee

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    So that is the ONLY way to turn my computer back to FAT32 other than formating the drive?
     
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    I'd be more interested in WHY this is happening rather than putting a band-aid on it! What's your config?
     
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    Config for what? :confused: *dumb*
     
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    system config
     
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  10. 2002/01/28
    Lee

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    Windows 2000
    256 MB RAM
    7.86 GB HDD
    P2 350 MHz
    Service Pack 2


    Anything else? *still not too sure on all what you want*
     
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    Arie

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    Converting is a bad idea, as in general it will give you a cluster size of 512 bytes (Disk Defragmenter will show you this cluster size... run an analysis report).

    What I did was (since I didn't want to do a clean install) is to backup my whole drive, formatted it as NTFS and restored the backup....
     
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    Could he use Ghost in that case?
     
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    Ghost

    An excellent bit of software, I should have thought to check the copy at work today to see if its possible, would be handy to know.

    It can do some other translation stuff but the specifics I cant remember, I usually use it just for straight drive cloning for hdd upgrades.

    I'll check asap and post tomorrow.
     
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    I know it can do whole drives or partitions......but may bring the same problems right back with it!!

    Just a thought!
     
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    Ghost

    I am in the process of determining to convert from FAT32 to NTFS.

    To be sure I did some inquiries at Symantec. Ghost produces images. So if you make a backup of your NTFS partition and you conver it to FAT32 and you put your image back, you have NTFS back!

    Kind regards,
    Ben
     
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    You are exactly right!

    I was thinking we were going to try to keep him w/ NTFS.
     
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    Sorry

    Havent had a chance to check yet, hopefully tomorrow if I can get a few spare minutes at work :(
     
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