Re: linux and windows

From: Rune Steffensen (r.steffensen_at_c2i.net)
Date: 12/13/03 

Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 19:15:02 GMT

George Hewitt meditated and wrote something like this:

>
>> Ok. My laptop came with FAT32, so assumed this was standard. I guess
>> (I never learn, do I? :) it is as easy to convert from NTFS to FAT32
>> as vice versa, so this may also be a way to access the XP part.
>
> Humm I don't think its as easy to convert. AFAIK (not certain) it
> requires a full reformat....

I was very sure I had seen the option "Convert to NTFS" in some GUI
component somewere, but I can't find it.

But I found the command 'convert' will do the trick form a DOS prompt.
There is no way to convert the other way (NTFS->VFAT), though. 

-- 
-rune
Incognitus, ergo sum.

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