[johnwill]

I don't recommend the Microsoft CONVERT utility, because you end up with an NTFS volume that has 512 byte clusters, and performance really sucks! Either do a backup, format to NTFS, restore, or use Partition Magic for the conversion.

 

[johnwill]

What? Just go to Start, run, cmd (enter, to start command line). type "convert :c (or your drive of choice) /FS:NTFS" , and hit enter. It will engage with a restart..the features will be there then that's what counts. :bandit:
Good luck...write back.

Please read my previous post, my point obviously escaped you! Microsoft's CONVERT has a large bug that results in tiny 512 byte clusters that greatly increases the overhead of the filesystem, as well as causes massive fragmentation very quickly. Performance of the new NTFS filesystem using the "simple" method sucks, that's why I SPECIFICALLY recommended against it!:hit:

 

[johnwill]

The preferred cluster size for NTFS is 4kb, that's what you'll get if you format a clean partition with W2K or WXP. When you run Partition Magic, they end up using the CONVERT utility, then you can resize the clusters with PM to 4kb.