snowsquirrel Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 is there a way to non-interactively convert a fat32 partition to ntfs?I triedconvert d: /fs:ntfs /xBut then I have to type in volume label.So then I triedlabel d: nameecho name | convert d: /fs:ntfs /x(label is needed, because I can't always know the disk label beforehand). But this doesn't work, as I get an error regarding invalid label name.THanks,~S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowsquirrel Posted December 31, 2004 Author Share Posted December 31, 2004 Is there a 3rd party tool that could do this?<bump>~S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
durex Posted December 31, 2004 Share Posted December 31, 2004 Adding this to your winnt.sif should convert all of your FAT32 columes to NTFS... [Unattended]FileSystem = ConvertNTFSI searched all over but couldnt find a single thing that lets you automatically convert a specific volume without any user interaction. Only thing I could think of was use a VBScript to do it.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prathapml Posted December 31, 2004 Share Posted December 31, 2004 That line in winnt.sif is only applicable to the system drive (or C:). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
durex Posted December 31, 2004 Share Posted December 31, 2004 Hrm... This link kinda makes it sound like it converts your fat32 file systems to ntfs...When upgrading, you can customize the [unattended]section of your answer file to convert FAT32 file systems automatically to NTFS.ur probably right though.. Im really surprised there isnt a way to do this without user interaction.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prathapml Posted December 31, 2004 Share Posted December 31, 2004 There is a way to do everything....For the below purpose, I'd say boot into WinPE environment, then have it execute a CMD which will run a diskpart script, and after that load XP setup. All of it can be done in an automated manner. Sample diskpart script (*VERY* example-ish... so you have to make your own by looking at the EXE's help):select disk 0select partition 2assign Y:exitconvert /whatever Y: ntfsWHATEVER_ELSENow, I don't know whether you want to recursively convert all partitions, or convert only specific ones...Now, WinPE is very complex, and you'll be better off doing the conversion by yourself, if you only need to do it for a few PCs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twizt3d Posted January 2, 2005 Share Posted January 2, 2005 not sure if you can do this, but u kan repartition the entire drive using winnt.sif Repartition = 1that reformats the entire drive.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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