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Windows XP did actually include a built in FAT32 to NTFS upgrade tool. Of course, you did have to run it manually from a command line, but I never had a failure
by kirb 9y ago
Windows XP did actually include a built in FAT32 to NTFS upgrade tool. Of course, you did have to run it manually from a command line, but I never had a failure from it. Vista would convert automatically if it saw a FAT boot drive, and I think Windows 2000 would upgrade FAT16 to 32.
I wonder if Apple will take the same approach for macOS (convert manually if you want for now, or we'll use it if you reinstall). Seems like a far greater risk for Apple if upgrading the OS breaks something for a lot of people, when they want users to be completely comfortable about updates.
- acdha 9y agoI was trying to remember if CONVERT was added in W2k or XP but if memory served you couldn't run it on the boot partition.
- kirb 9y agoSeems it was 2000: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~simon/howto/win2kcommands.html http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~simon/howto/win2kcommands.html It definitely worked on the boot partition at least on XP, not sure about 2k. If it can’t lock the drive it schedules it to be done at boot time (similar to on-boot chkdsk).