Re: Insufficient memory to convert to NTFS

From: Sleepless in Seattle (jonah_at_guest.com)
Date: 02/01/05 

Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 16:46:02 +1300

How did you create the FAT32 partition originally? 

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Jonah
"No Spam" <gogo@fake.com> wrote in message 
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> Hello,
>
> I have a 1GHz Athlon processor, 378 Meg of RAM, and an 80 Gig HDD running 
> Win XP Pro.  I'm trying to convert my hdd from FAT32 to NTFS using the 
> convert utility.  I start the conversion, it goes so far and then I get an 
> Insufficient memory error and something about a file that begins HOT.  It 
> flashes so quickly on the screen it's hard to write down.
>
> I have 38 Gig available on the drive.  I saw something on the web that
> would make me think that I need to look at my Vcache settings.  I have
> 576 Meg set as the Total paging file size for all drives.
>
> I tried defragging my drive and the same thing happens.  I tried running 
> in verbose mode, it shows a lot more messages, they flash up on the screen 
> so fast that it's impossible to read them, but it doesn't stop when it's 
> done.  Is there any way of getting convert to write out to a log file or 
> something?  It doesn't make much sense to show all of these messages if 
> you have to sit in front of your computer watching intently for hours to 
> try to write down the last message that appears on the screen onto a piece 
> of paper.
>
> I've tried running in Safe mode command prompt only, but it still says 
> that I have to reboot in order to run convert.  Safe mode command prompt 
> only in XP Pro, doesn't look like a true command prompt only.  There's a 
> title bar at the top of what looks like a DOS window.  I'd like to put the 
> convert in a batch file so that I could put a pause at the end of it, and 
> capture the last message, it just flashes some junk up on the screen and 
> then reboots..  I don't think that's possible since it can only run when 
> the computer is first booted up.
>
> -Eric

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