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   From: noone@nowhere.nothere.com   
      
   On 19/04/2011 16:16, Dave wrote:   
   > I have been trying, in vain, to convert FAT32 to NTFS on a 2 disk IDE   
   > RAID 1 (mirrored) array managed by a Promise FastTrak TX2000   
   > controller, under XP SP2.  The OS runs on this array.   
   >   
   > The file system isn't dirty, there's plenty of free space, and the   
   > drive has been defragged.  I've gone as far as even pre-creating the   
   > MFT file using the fsutil command, then using the /cvtarea switch on   
   > convert.exe to give me 1 large contiguous MFT file.  I've also pre-   
   > aligned the current FAT32 16k clusters on 4k boundaries using BootIt   
   > NG.   
   >   
   > After issuing the convert command and rebooting, chkdsk runs without   
   > errors, then the conversion starts.  About 30 minutes into the   
   > conversion, I get "Drive C: was not converted.", followed by "The   
   > conversion failed.", and that's it.   
   >   
   > There is no other information displayed.  I'm at a loss as to what the   
   > problem could be, other than perhaps the RAID setup is interfering --   
   > but it shouldn't be.   
   >   
   > I've tried Partition Magic 8.01 as well, which apparently does nothing   
   > more than issue the convert command (which fails as described above.)   
   >   
   > Looking for any recommendations so I can close this issue and get the   
   > drive converted.   
      
   Sounds like you're doing all of the right things.   
   It might be worth running chkdsk /f first, rather than letting that   
   be called via the convert command.   
   If still no-go and you can't find anything useful on the Fastrack   
   forums, one way would be to backup to another drive using a file-   
   based backup app., then use a boot CD to delete the FAT 32 partition   
   and create a new NTFS one. Restore your backup and bingo.  A lot of   
   extra work for something that should (and usually does) "just work"   
   though.   
   HTH   
   --   
   Rob   
      
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