Format Disk To NTFS Without Using Xp Installation
Aug 8, 2005How do you format a new, fresh, hard drive to NTFS? Without using an XP system or installation disk? I know for old stuff you can use fdisk and format in DOS.
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Format Changed From Ntfs To Fat ?
May 20, 2006I recently upgraded the hard drive on a pc that I had built and I am sure when I installed windows it was formatted with ntfs, when I installed and cloned to the new drive I noticed it was fat 32, is it possible for windows to change its format?
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Jul 20, 2005I already converted my HD from FAT32 to NFTS. I ran the "fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo c:" and it shows my cluster size of 4096 KB. BootIT NG also confirms the 4KB cluster size.So..Is that all I needed to do? Is there an advantage of formatting a HD directly as NTFS? Is the convert command (with the 4KB cluster size) enough or will a re-format give better security, performance etc.
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Jun 19, 2005Been trying to reformat my harddrive, format goes well but it will only format it to the fat32 and i want it in the ntfs. now i have tried to convert using the cmd command butit tell me it will convert then restart and for a few seconds it will tell me that it is going to convert may take a few minutes then a few seconds later windows will start and its not converted over. i have the windows xp service pk 2 upgrade cd i tried using that but it never gives me a choice on wwhich file system to use. i know the option is there thou because i installed xp on my mother's as an upgrade from win me and it ask me if i wanted to convert.
Unable To Format EXT HD From NTFS To FAT32?
Apr 25, 2008Ive recently purchased a used 80gb external portable HD for use with my new USB car stereo head unit.The manufacturers state that the H/U will only recognize the FAT32 file system. Hence I went about formatting (it came formatted) the drive as it came with the NTFS system. When I prepare to format the drive via disk management, it only gives me the option of an NTFS format and no FAT32.
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Jul 28, 2010I have a GM SATA 160GB External Hard Drive that is USB compatible.During a recent file transfer, a suspected Virus infection caused all folders to executable files which even could not be viewed. Failing in several attempts to recover any of the affected files, I resorted to various formatting procedures including Low-level formatting. RAW file format resulted and now I need an NTFS file format to be able to use the drive!
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Jun 28, 2006my hardrive failed and i was forced to format and reinstall windows xp sp2, during the installion i noticed something very intresting.
in the DOS menu of the windows xp installation, a user is usually given an option to delete and created a new partition, upon doing so, the user will be given two choices:
1-format partition into ntfs (fast)
2-format partition into ntfs
Format Or Reformatting Xp Pro With NTFS File System?
Dec 9, 2004Can anyone advise me on formating or reformating my hard drive. I am running windows xp pro and have a 20 gb maxtor hard drive. This is formatted as NTFS as one partition. I tried from windows explore and from my computer. I also tried to change to 32 bit partition. Can I do this with fdisk, if so how?
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Oct 23, 2004I am trying to format my hard drive, it is already converted to NTFS but I cam getting the error message cannot format drive e (my drive letter)I have ran CHKDSK and it is saying unable to perform scan on RAW drives
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Dec 17, 2006i`m using maxtor 200gb divided into 4 partitions c: is for the operating system and d,e,f only data. i want to reinstall windows only on c: cause i think the registry is pretty sick CAN I FORMAT ONLY C: DRIVE AND REINSTALL WINDOWS WITHOUT CAUSING ANY DAMAGE TO D.E,F DRIVES?
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Apr 12, 2006My 20 GB HD is the master. everything was installed properly and I had no problems.
Yesterday I decided to change computer cases so I decided to transfer everything to the new case. I checked and tripple checked the hardware hook up. Every button and light works properly. When I turned on the comp, it would try to load and then it would turn off and restart on me. Thats fine, I figured I could use a format. So i put in the Original XP CD to format. Took me to the usual blue screen where it loads its drivers at the bottom, however after it loaded the Press F6 to load Raid drivers and Press F2 to do whatever, it froze on me. I can't understand why. BIOS loads everything, and it recognizes everything. I tried the whole put in the windows 98 or ME boot disk, but it would not load the drivers and then it would load from the XP cd. And yes it was set to boot from A: drive first.
Installation Issue After Format System
Apr 13, 2008Just formatted my computer, and now i want to install my windows, but when i am installing it, installation does not copy all files. setup canot copy the file: comctl32.dll and after installation i get a message winlogon.exe unable to locate component. and nothing happens after.
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Aug 29, 2007My Pc, Is Full Of Useless/Corrupt Stuff Now.It Crashes Regularly.I Have Formatted The Secondary Partition Without Problems, But To Format The Primary, You Need The Windows Disc. Is There A Way Of Formatting Without Windows Discs Or Expensive Third Party Programs?
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Aug 14, 2005Ive been trying to reformat my computer but everytime i try i get this message: The type of the file system is NTFS.Format cannot run because the volume is in use by another process. Format may run if this volume is dismounted first.ALL OPENED HANDLES TO THIS VOLUME WOULD THEN BE INVALID.Would you like to force a dismount on this volume? (Y/N)
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Feb 5, 2007I want to format my hard drive on my dell laptop. when inserting the restore disk I get this message "Windows xp software on your computer is newer than the one on this Disk. Cannot format disk"
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Feb 3, 2005but how can you tell if you are running FAT or NTFS file system?My husband did our XP upgrade (over Windows 98) over a year ago and he has no idea.
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Sep 12, 2007I am trying to create a Boot Disk for an NTFS or FAT Partition in Windows XP.So far i have formatted my floppy disk, but im stuck on the next step!Copy the Ntldr and the Ntdetect.com files from the I386 folder on the Windows XP Setup CD-ROM, Windows XP Setup floppy disk, or from a computer that is running the same version of Windows XP as the computer that you want to access with the boot floppy.I have found the Ntldr file and the Ntdetect.com file, but when i have copied them where do i paste them?? What do i do with them?
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Sep 20, 2004I have two hard drives in my computer. The first disk contains XP and the software, the second contains personal stuff. The second disk is installed using NTFS dynamic disk. Last weekedend I formated the XP disk, and installed XP again. After installing, the second disk comes up as "unreadable" dynamic disk. Is there a way to make it readable? I haven't done anything to it, so all the data should be there.
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Apr 6, 2005While in XP I ran PQBoot from the Partition Magic 7 Start Menu, it loaded a command window and asked which O/S I wanted to load - foolishly I entered 2 for Red Hat 9 and pressed enter. (Dumb I know, and changing my mind 1 microsecond later was still too late.)When it rebooted it said "Autocheck not available" and rebooted.
I booted the XP CD and chose the second recovery option but the list of partitions had at the top a partition that was not C:Windows, I can't remember exactly what it said but used drive I: and some other description. So I exited without doing anything to do more research.I booted Knoppix 3.7 live Linux CD and that reassuringly showed all the drive partitions still where they should be especially hda1 my Windows partition.
Installation Disk Keeps Reformatting Disk Not Installing Program
Jun 24, 2010I am having to reinstall XP - the setup starts and then reformats the hard drive. After it has done that it won't start the program installation it just keeps looping and reformatting the hdd
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Oct 24, 2006My son couldn't find the original XP cd that came with his Systemax, so we bought a new XP Pro OS and installed it. While I was working on the connectivity issue, we found the original XP cd. Since I had not activated the XP Pro, I'd like to switch to the original XP and save the new one for a future laptop.
But, when I went to install the original, I didn't seem to have much of a choice because it was about to install the original on the same partition as the XP Pro . . . so I quit, and tried to format the HDD again, but since I was using the Command Prompt, MS said that the disk was already in use so that I couldn't format it.
Format With DVD Disk
Jun 11, 2009I am trying to format my computer. I have the cd and cd key to do it but for some reason my dvd drive dos'nt want to read any disk. So I can't format it. I think that I have a virus that is doing this to my dvd drive. So can I format a different way besides the disk.
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Dec 12, 2007I have a Hard drive with a corrupted boot sector that is Fat32. I'm setting up a new hard drive with NTFS. I'm going to slave the old HDD on the other IDE for file recovery. Will this be ok using the two different file systems?
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Oct 10, 2005I had a 40 gig hard drive : then bought myself an 80 gig to accomodate the huge amount of music I had collected: essentially using the second hard drive merely as a storage space: i.e. it had no windows or other interface installed upon it and was run from harddrive number 1 (40gig) due to long overdue need of formating : I reformatted harddrive 1 and following said format I couldnt read hard drive 2 (with all my beloved music) through windows
after much headscratching I remembered that my original windows was fat 32 win xp pro and this new format job was ntfs win xp homeI havent had a chance to test my hard drive on a fat 32 driven pc yet : and i was posting here in the hope that someone could enlighten me on whether it is worth trying another format job with fat 32 and xp pro or whether there is anyway i can convert the 2nd hard drive to ntfs.
Formatting PC - Disk Is Not Able To Format
Oct 22, 2005I went to format my pc, using the recovery bootdisk i have.Im on XP.I put the disk in and typed in dos, format c:. everything seemed to be goin a ok and then it asked for teh volume label, i pressed enter then rebooted my pc with the disk in again. I then typed format c: again as i thought the origional format didnt happen. I then get a message saying that this disk is not able to format. the bootdisk also doesnt seem to load correctly now either.
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Nov 30, 2007Trying to install XP Pro and I need to fdisk. Should I use a Win98 or 98se boot disk does it matter? I know I can use the CD to do it all but lets say I wasn't and wanted to clean up the hard disk from a fresh perspective would it matter which version of boot disk I used?
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Aug 14, 2009I tried reformatting my pc for several times now but I can't reformat it.It just goes up to the stage where I have to pick the drive to format but there are no drives to choose from. The drives doesn't show and I can't pick the C drive to format or see any other drive.I don't have anything listed. My box just says Unknown Disk (There is no disk in this drive.) It just stops there and I can't proceed.
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Mar 24, 2007I have a computer with xp on it and i need to no how to re-format my computer i was told i need a boot disk from my k8 triton motherboard disk and if i do is there way of finding out how to make one and if not how do i get one so i can re-format.
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Feb 9, 2009I decided to do a complete format with my windows disk, and so I booted from it and I have come upon the selection screen which asks which partition it wants to install under. There was an E: partition, which I removed.
Formatting C Drive With NTFS: Unable To Read Disk?
Aug 12, 2005I'm trying to boot to my trusty 98 bootup disk and it says it can't read the c:....my only guess is that it's an ntfs partition.how can I format this thing?
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Sep 16, 2006I am having a problem with my 400GB HDD not displaying correctly - it displays as 127GB - in a new install of Windows XP on a seperate drive. My original setup was as follows:400GB SATA HDD with Windows XP as the Operating System plus Data - Single Partition - NTFS. 300GB SATA HDD with purely data - Single Partition - NTFS.I bought a new HDD today (SATA 320GB) and installed it in the PC. The original XP install saw it was installed and offered formatting options from Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management - no formatting options were taken.I then installed Windows XP (non-SP2 install, SP2 has been installed afterwards along with Video Card and Motherboard drivers) to the new HDD without removing the old drives first.
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