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Hard Drive Formatting

Postby lister007 » Wed Feb 07, 2007 12:19 pm

Hey this seems like an obvious answer but need to make sure, if I format a FAT32 drive to a NTFS then do I loose all the data on it, or does it just get mangled? Never tried before! Any help? Cheers!
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Postby Kariudo » Wed Feb 07, 2007 4:41 pm

yes, formating means you loose any and all data previously on that disk
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Postby Shazzy » Wed Feb 07, 2007 5:19 pm

Yes, you erase and lose all data. No, you do not loose your data on your foes.
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Postby DJ_Izumi » Wed Feb 07, 2007 5:21 pm

I'm pretty sure PartitionMagic can convert FAT32 partitions to NTFS without loss of data.
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Postby lister007 » Wed Feb 07, 2007 6:27 pm

Do you know that for sure? Its a 500GB Hard drive which is almost full and only just realized when tried to render more than four gigs it wouldn't work and I didn't format!!! :roll: so got nowhere to move the stuff to, format then move it back! sucks!!!
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Postby DJ_Izumi » Wed Feb 07, 2007 6:36 pm

Fairly certian. You can just get the program and try it out. It offers me the option to convert my NTFS partitions to FAT32 so it should go the other way. It'll warn you before it does anything damaging. I think conversion can't be done on a booting partition though.
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Postby Joe88 » Wed Feb 07, 2007 8:39 pm

this can be done within windows, no extra programs needed

1. Click Start, Run and type "cmd" in the space and click ok
2. With the Command Prompt open you can type "help convert" this shows info on how to convert the hard drive
3. "Convert C: /FS:NTFS" This will be the general command "C" will be whatever drive you are converting to NTFS.
After you have that all typed out hit Enter. The Command Prompt window will tell you when it's finished.
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Postby TaranT » Thu Feb 08, 2007 12:39 am

How to Convert FAT Disks to NTFS
Microsoft.com wrote:...you can convert a FAT or FAT32 volume to an NTFS volume without formatting the volume, though it is still a good idea to back up your data before you convert.
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Postby lister007 » Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:18 am

There seem to be a few advantages of formating to NTFS, why would you guys use it?
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Postby Kariudo » Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:01 am

http://cquirke.mvps.org/ntfs.htm
looks like a pretty good list to me
probably the biggest motivator (at least for me) is FATxx's 137GB disk limit/4GB file limit

using premiere pro (and having to export uncompressed) a 4 minute amv would probably be over 4GB
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Postby lister007 » Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:12 am

If i convert this, lets say there is no damage to the files will premiere still be able to find the clips in the same way? Just had some trouble with that already, cos if the tree changes then premeire wont find my files and its much harder to convert back.
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Postby Joe88 » Thu Feb 08, 2007 1:23 pm

lister007 wrote:If i convert this, lets say there is no damage to the files will premiere still be able to find the clips in the same way? Just had some trouble with that already, cos if the tree changes then premeire wont find my files and its much harder to convert back.
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if anything it will find it faster
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Postby Pwolf » Thu Feb 08, 2007 3:22 pm

lister007 wrote:If i convert this, lets say there is no damage to the files will premiere still be able to find the clips in the same way? Just had some trouble with that already, cos if the tree changes then premeire wont find my files and its much harder to convert back.
Cheers for your help!


formatting doesn't change anything except how the data is stored on the drive itself...the 1s and 0s (ok there is more to that but i dun want to explain it). as a user, you don't see any change at all. there are key differences but, to you, who obviously doesn't have a whole lot of computer knowledge (not saying that to be mean or anything), you wont notice anything. if the drive letter changes again like in the other post, just change it back like i told you.

as for converting the drive to NTFS, yes you can convert it, but be careful that nothing will work 100% so there is a slim chance the conversion will "screw up".

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Postby lister007 » Fri Feb 09, 2007 7:32 am

Cool cheers, just making sure cos never needed to do it before cos always formated before put files on the drive.
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Postby DJ_Izumi » Fri Feb 09, 2007 2:17 pm

Pwolf wrote:as for converting the drive to NTFS, yes you can convert it, but be careful that nothing will work 100% so there is a slim chance the conversion will "screw up".


Especially if the power goes out while you're doing it. Then you're boned.
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