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echo: nthelp
to: Dave
from: Geo.
date: 2004-09-26 19:25:16
subject: Re: NTFS file converter?

From: "Geo." 

"Dave"  wrote in message
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> This looks scary.  Is it gonna mess with the data on that volume, or
> does it just mean that the system has to turn off Windows and that I
> won't have access while the conversion is in progress (which is to be
> expected...)???

It means it's going to unmount the volume then do the convert, I believe
there is also a way to do the convert at boot as that's what NT4 used to do
when you installed it to NTFS. It would install as FAT then convert during
a reboot sequence since the system volume cannot be unmounted.

Geo.

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