Re: OEM Blunder requires re-install of XP Pro

Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

"Mike Brannigan [MSFT]" <mikebran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Do the restore using the OEM media.
>Take the FAT32 and then use the Convert command line tool to safely convert
>them to NTFS
>Install and configure your app
>Job Done. :-)
>

Converting FAT32 partitions to NTFS in this way will normally result
in an inefficient 512 byte cluster size on the NTFS drive because of a
partition boundary alignment issue.

The partition boundary needs to be aligned for NTFS prior to
conversion with a utility such as Partition Magic (Symantec) or
BootItNg (http://www.bootitng.com)

See the article on converting NTFS to FAT32 by the late Alex Nichol
MVP at http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/ntfscvt.htm


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

In memory of a dear friend Alex Nichol MVP
http://aumha.org/alex.htm
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