Converting to NTFS

[Samantha]

hey,

Question, does converting a drive to NTFS works like formating it? I mean does it erase everything that is stored on that drive in order to switch to NTFS file system?

thank you...

Sam

 

[Dirk Diggler]

No it doesn't, the information will remain untouched by converting. It alters the file system, not the files.

 

[Samantha]

One more thing, the reason why I'm asking about it, is that I want to be able to use some folders on that drive as NTFS compressed folders. The thing is that when I created compressed folder on FAT32 with 'compressed (zipped) folders', those where treated by the system not as directories but rather as files (sort of like ZIP files). I need to be able to use them as directories and I want to know if NTFS type of compression allows that.

 

[gonaads]

Samantha, try this link. It describes the NTFS file system.

http://www.digit-life.com/articles/ntfs/

Plus you can not convert only one part of the file system. That is if your XP OS is formatted FAT32, because a FAT32 formatted OS can not read a NTFS file system. Soooo if you're doing a complete conversion then everything should be fine.

Also try this link to MicroSquish as to what File System is/does what:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tr...prodtechnol/winntas/tips/techrep/filesyst.asp