Convert to NTFS?

The hard drives in my seven year old computer are formatted in Fat 32.

Can I use Win XP pro SP2 to convert all my partitions and drives to NTFS. Is
it worth the trouble? How would I go about it? Can I convert the drive that
holds the OS (C: drive)?

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Relevant Pages

  • Re: Sync option destroys flash!
    ... According to the man pages for mount, FAT and VFAT ... takes time as the buffered data is written to the flash ... Mount it with the sync option and ... It's bad for floppies, it's bad for hard drives, it's FATAL ...
    (Linux-Kernel)
  • Re: Computer Backup
    ... External USB hard drives typically are already formatted and ready ... FAT 32 so that the whole drive is usable right out of the box.. ... The total partition size that FAT 32 can handle is 512 GB for Windows ... 98/ME because of the limitations of the fdisk program. ...
    (rec.outdoors.rv-travel)
  • Re: Do You Defrag?
    ... as a MBR, that should look familiar as it is a FAT component. ... no matter what file system is used. ... with modern desktop systems which have decent fast drives. ...
    (alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt)
  • Sync option destroys flash!
    ... According to the man pages for mount, FAT and VFAT ... file systems ignore the "sync" option. ... takes time as the buffered data is written to the flash ... It's bad for floppies, it's bad for hard drives, it's FATAL ...
    (Linux-Kernel)
  • Re: Safely Remove External Drive
    ... You are correct in that FAT and NTS volumes are treated slightly differently. ... it does effectively turn off write-caching. ... For NTFS, it changes the behavior but doesn't totally turn off the cache. ... main performance inpact on flash drives because on flash drives ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware)