This is my bosses Acer Aspire 1690 laptop and it came with FAT filesystem. I just replaced the hard drive and am now trying to convert the file system to NTFS. When I run "convert c: /FS:NTFS /V" I see all of the files appear to be processed. But afterwards the file system is still FAT. I have tried this twice with the same result. I have a log from event viewer I could post but need to be sure there is no sensitive info in it. It mostly appears to be just file names but there are spots that may to be data of some kind. Any idea why this is happening? Does it have anything to do with the small hidden service partition? Does it also have to be converted. Thanks Yohoho
Are you getting any error messages? Maybe try it with out the verbose switch. The only problems I've ever had were typos and command syntax: too few or too many spaces that weren't apparent.
There were no errors at all. It just ended after the last file with some message about more info at a MS link. I am trying it again now without the verbose switch. OK, it says conversion failed. Event viewer log below Converting drive C: to NTFS... Convert will take some time to process the files on the volume. When this phase of conversion is complete, the computer will restart. Determining disk space required for file system conversion... Total disk space: 71987252 KB Free space on volume: 59196384 KB Space required for conversion: 208632 KB Converting file system The conversion failed. C: was not converted to NTFS
OK, may have just found something. It does a disk check before the conversion and with out the /v switch it shows something with a AVG log file. The type of the file system is FAT32. A disk check has been scheduled. Windows will now check the disk. Volume Serial Number is 9982-A53D The size of the \Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\AVG10\log\avgchjw.log entry is not valid. Windows has made corrections to the file system. 71969664 KB total disk space. 909408 KB in 1316 hidden files. 221120 KB in 6898 folders. 11642720 KB in 46762 files. 59196384 KB are available. With the /V switch in the previous attempts it says: A disk check has been scheduled. Windows will now check the disk. Volume Serial Number is 9982-A53D Windows has checked the file system and found no problems. 71969664 KB total disk space. 909792 KB in 1395 hidden files. 222816 KB in 6951 folders. 12376224 KB in 47571 files. 58460800 KB are available. 32768 bytes in each allocation unit. 2249052 total allocation units on disk. 1826900 allocation units available on disk. Very Strange. CHKDSK says it made changes, which I assume means it fixed it but I am going to remove AVG and delete these log files and reinstall AVG and try again. Thanks
This is now done, the conversion is complete. The problem was a corrupted file AVG log file. I could not open it in notepad. Once removed the convert command ran fine and now I have an NTFS drive. I can't understand why a verbose switch would hide errors. Thanks for the suggestion that got this done. Yohoho