Conversion to NTFS Problems

[Down8 0]

I have a 10gig drive with 2 partitions, both are FAT32, b/c I was going to dual boot and wanted to be able read evrything. I've never installed Win9x though, and don't plan on it, so the last time I reinstalled Win2K, I formatted C: in NTFS. I recently tried to convert D: to NTFS and here's what happened:

Code:

C:\>help convertConverts FAT volumes to NTFS.CONVERT volume /FS:NTFS [/V]  volume      Specifies the drive letter (followed by a colon),              mount point, or volume name.  /FS:NTFS    Specifies that the volume to be converted to NTFS.  /V          Specifies that Convert should be run in verbose mode.C:\>convert d: /fs:ntfs /vThe type of the file system is FAT32.Enter current volume label for drive D: ide1b-fat32Convert cannot gain exclusive access to the D: drive,so it cannot convert it now.  Would you like toschedule it to be converted the next time thesystem restarts (Y/N)? nC:\>exit

Now, does anyone know what's up? I have very little room available on that drive [like 2%, ISOs take up a lot of room ], could that be the problem? also, is there any chance of losing data if I do schedule it to be converted at next restart?

 

System specs: Soyo 7VCA, PIII 500E@667, 256MB RAM, Win2K Server [full specs].

 

Thanks,

-bZj

 

[This message has been edited by Down8 (edited 30 October 2000).]

[Stephen Van Siclen 0]

Next time Hit Y and reboot. I have never seen it fail.

[Toby 0]

Hi

 

Before you do that, burn at least one of those ISO's and delete it since NTFS has some overhead compared to FAT.

 

 

// Toby