Windows Vista provides the FAT to NTFS Conversion Utility (convert.exe)
for this purpose. To convert drive C:, for example, just open a Command
Prompt window (cmd.exe) and type:
convert c: /fs:ntfs
Include the /v option to run in ???verbose??? mode, which provides more information
as it does its job. Type convert /? for other, more esoteric options.
Note that this is a one-way conversion, at least when using the software
included with Windows Vista. If you need to convert an NTFS drive to
FAT32 for some reason, you??™ll need a third-party utility such as Disk Director
(http://www.acronis.com/).
Advanced NTFS Settings
The extra features of the NTFS filesystem discussed in the previous section
come at a price, namely a small amount of disk space and performance overhead.
The following settings allow you to fine-tune NTFS to squeeze the
most performance out of your NTFS drive; experiment with these settings to
find the configuration that works best for you.
Start by opening the Registry Editor (Chapter 3) and expanding the branches to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Filesystem.
Double-click any one of the following values to change its data. If the value
is missing, create it by going to Edit ??? New ??? DWORD Value, and then
typing the name exactly as shown.
NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation
Values: 0 = enabled (default), 1 = disabled.
Early versions of Windows and DOS didn??™t support so-called long filenames,
but rather allowed only eight-character filenames followed by
three-letter filename extensions.
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