Re: How long should Fat->NTFS conversion take?

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From: John R Weiss (jrweiss98155_at_NOSPAM.comcast.net)
Date: 10/10/04 

Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 20:48:03 -0700

"Mike Bennett" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote...
>
> I plan to convert the drive from the FAT filesystem to
> NTFS. How long should this process take? The drive is 20GB
> with a little over 8GB in use.

On the order of 10-20 minutes.

Defrag the drive first to make it faster and help ensure success.

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