Where's the initialize and Convert Wizaed when you need him??

[bare]

Trying to Convert My fat32 drive to ntfs.. but
Ithe "wizard" is a no-show in Diskmgmt.
But then I can't even Log on as an Administraor on my one
machine XP ststem :-)

[Kadaitcha Man]

bare wrote:

Re: Where's the initialize and Convert Wizaed when you need him??

He's sleeping it off after a night on the grog.

> But then I can't even Log on as an Administraor on my one
> machine XP ststem :-)


Please explain. Read this: http://kadaitcha.ath.cx/articles/liszt.aspx

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[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Bare,

Can you logon with Admin proviledges?

If not, then don't bother converting yet, as you need to resolve this issue
first. For a Pro user, either remmeber the password, reset it from an admin
level acct, or backup your data and start over. For a Home user, try booting
to safe mode and using a blank password.

Once you've resolved the password problem, start/ru ncmd, from the prompt
run:

convert <drive> /fs:ntfs

For the system drive, follow the prompts to schedule it to occur upon a
system restart (you cannot convert the drive while it is in use, you will
receive a message about a dismount failure). Read this before converting:

http://aumha.org/win5/a/ntfscvt.htm

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org

"bare" > wrote in message
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> Trying to Convert My fat32 drive to ntfs.. but
> Ithe "wizard" is a no-show in Diskmgmt.
> But then I can't even Log on as an Administraor on my one
> machine XP ststem :-)