Convert to NTFS

After many attempts and help from you good guys.... Finally "Convert"
ran to completion and gave me a NTFS hard drive.

BUT, the ending drive (my C: drive) was not bootable.
From Acronis Trueimage I tried to Restore the MBR and Track 0 ... no
luck on a bootable drive.
So, Restored back to FAT32.

Ideas?

Rick
Wed Mar 26 20:08:30 PDT 2008

Frank wrote:
> After many attempts and help from you good guys.... Finally "Convert"
> ran to completion and gave me a NTFS hard drive.
>
> BUT, the ending drive (my C: drive) was not bootable.
> From Acronis Trueimage I tried to Restore the MBR and Track 0 ... no
> luck on a bootable drive.
> So, Restored back to FAT32.
>
> Ideas?
Partition Magic will do the job but, it is a Norton product and some
people do not like their products. :)

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eckrichco
Wed Mar 26 20:42:01 PDT 2008

As microsoft has said "once converted to NTFS from FAT32,thier is no
restore back to FAT32" its a one time process..Try recovery console from
xp cd,in recovery,type:CONVERT C: /FS:NTFS

"Frank" wrote:

> After many attempts and help from you good guys.... Finally "Convert"
> ran to completion and gave me a NTFS hard drive.
>
> BUT, the ending drive (my C: drive) was not bootable.
> From Acronis Trueimage I tried to Restore the MBR and Track 0 ... no
> luck on a bootable drive.
> So, Restored back to FAT32.
>
> Ideas?
>

Bill
Wed Mar 26 20:44:46 PDT 2008

Yes, there is, if you use third party tools.

Andrew E. wrote:
> As microsoft has said "once converted to NTFS from FAT32,thier is no
> restore back to FAT32" its a one time process..Try recovery console from
> xp cd,in recovery,type:CONVERT C: /FS:NTFS
>
> "Frank" wrote:
>
>> After many attempts and help from you good guys.... Finally "Convert"
>> ran to completion and gave me a NTFS hard drive.
>>
>> BUT, the ending drive (my C: drive) was not bootable.
>> From Acronis Trueimage I tried to Restore the MBR and Track 0 ... no
>> luck on a bootable drive.
>> So, Restored back to FAT32.
>>
>> Ideas?

Unc
Thu Mar 27 13:17:09 PDT 2008

On Mar 26, 10:44=A0pm, "Bill in Co." <not_really_h...@earthlink.net>
wrote:

> Yes, there is, if you use third party tools.

Partition Magic is the leading candidate... but there are NO
guarantees that moving back to FAT32 will work. BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP
before you attempt to do it.

Here's an article about making such a converson:

http://faq.arstechnica.com/link.php?i=3D1820

Here's a quote from that, about "Partition Tragic":

"Partition Magic allows you to convert an NTFS partition back to
FAT32, but there is a reason that Partition Magic is not so lovingly
referred to as "Partition Tragic". Often conversions simply fail, or
worse, destroy data."

Bill
Thu Mar 27 14:04:26 PDT 2008

Yes, it seems to be somewhat risky, even with PM. Wonder why he wanted to
do it in the first place. Maybe to be seeable and shareable in some
Win9x dual boot situation (just guessing)

Unc G wrote:
> On Mar 26, 10:44 pm, "Bill in Co." <not_really_h...@earthlink.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Yes, there is, if you use third party tools.
>
> Partition Magic is the leading candidate... but there are NO
> guarantees that moving back to FAT32 will work. BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP
> before you attempt to do it.
>
> Here's an article about making such a converson:
>
> http://faq.arstechnica.com/link.php?i=1820
>
> Here's a quote from that, about "Partition Tragic":
>
> "Partition Magic allows you to convert an NTFS partition back to
> FAT32, but there is a reason that Partition Magic is not so lovingly
> referred to as "Partition Tragic". Often conversions simply fail, or
> worse, destroy data."

Frank
Thu Mar 27 19:06:39 PDT 2008

I converted to NTFS and my drive was not bootable.
So, I did a Restore and went back to FAT32 from a backup using Trueimage.

My question was.... any ideas why my drive was not bootable after the
conversion to NTFS.
Did I miss a step somewhere?


Frank wrote:
> After many attempts and help from you good guys.... Finally "Convert"
> ran to completion and gave me a NTFS hard drive.
>
> BUT, the ending drive (my C: drive) was not bootable.
> From Acronis Trueimage I tried to Restore the MBR and Track 0 ... no
> luck on a bootable drive.
> So, Restored back to FAT32.
>
> Ideas?

John
Fri Mar 28 10:30:45 PDT 2008

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:08:30 -0500, Rick <fsholbrook@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Frank wrote:
>> After many attempts and help from you good guys.... Finally "Convert"
>> ran to completion and gave me a NTFS hard drive.
>>
>> BUT, the ending drive (my C: drive) was not bootable.
>> From Acronis Trueimage I tried to Restore the MBR and Track 0 ... no
>> luck on a bootable drive.
>> So, Restored back to FAT32.
>>
>> Ideas?
>Partition Magic will do the job but, it is a Norton product and some
>people do not like their products. :)
I'd like to make this distinction: Partition Magic was a PowerQuest
product. BOUGHT OUT by Norton and, as far as I know neglected. As was
DriveImage. I like PartitionMagic, but I don't think I'd completely
trust it to convert a live partition without a good image or clone
backup first.
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