changing from FAT32 to NTFS

This is a discussion about changing from FAT32 to NTFS in the Windows Hardware category; i upgraded from win98se to win2000 pro final on a fat32 partition. and now i want to change from fat32 to ntfs partition and i don't want to re-install windows 2000. any ideas??.

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i upgraded from win98se to win2000 pro final on a fat32 partition. and now i want to change from fat32 to ntfs partition and i don't want to re-install windows 2000. any ideas??

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i learned this in MCSE class
F:\>convert /?
Converts FAT volumes to NTFS.
 
CONVERT volume /FS:NTFS [/V]
 
volume Specifies the drive letter (followed by a colon),
mount point, or volume name.
/FS:NTFS Specifies that the volume to be converted to NTFS.
/V Specifies that Convert should be run in verbose mode.

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Quick question...
 
Does that convert to NTFS or NTFS 5.0?

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good question.
 
and what does verbose mean??

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Verbose tells the command to output extra information while it's doing it's job. It's very common to see that on UNIX commands (usually -v).