well, it was a good try. That command would not work. I called ms support
and they came to the conclusion that the only way is to reformat the drive
and recover the data from a backup. I used image for windows and it took a
little over 9 hours to backup. It almost did not fit on the laptop hd. there
is now 32gb left.
-----Original Message-----
From: JM Casey
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2018 9:19 PM
To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] convert ex drive from fat32 to ntfs?
I have probably close to a terabyte of music on my hard drives, and I try to
back it up semi-regularly, and have never run into problems copying so much
data.
However, you can actually convert the drive without reformatting it,
apparently. I say "apparently" because I haven't actually tried it. But
Windows has a command for this. It's called "convert" and you run it from
the command prompt. So open up an administrative command prompt and type
this:
Convert e: /fs:ntfs
Where e: is of course whatever drive letter you end up with.
As I've never done this before, my instinct would still be to copy the files
to a folder on your hd anyway as a backup.
-----Original Message-----
From: JAWS-Users-List <jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com> On Behalf Of
Lenny McHugh
Sent: July 5, 2018 9:03 PM
To: JFW List <jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com>
Subject: [JAWS-Users] convert ex drive from fat32 to ntfs?
My grandson has an ex drive without about 200 gb of data stored on a fat32
drive. He needs it to be converted to ntfs. My win 10 laptop has more than
enough hd space. I first thought about trying to copy his ex drive to a new
folder on my lap top. Then reformat his drive and copy everything back. I
also thought about trying to use image for windows to back up his ex drive
and then restore it to the reformatted unit. I am not sure if a simple copy
of what will be the d drive to the new folder would be the best. With that
much data could it get clobbered?
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