| I recently converted a FAT disk to NTFS on my home system and
had problems similar to that reported in .0.
(In my case, I converted the D drive, which contained user
files and some big applications such as Netscape and the
Microsoft Office 97 suite. On a 1GB RZ57 I realized a 10%
gain in space -- plus I was able to compress some
rarely-needed stuff! However my C drive, containing the
system, is still FAT.)
I looked up the tech bulletin mentioned in .1, but it
proclaims that its technique cannot be applied to NT 4.0, and
directed me to another tech bulletin that said that setacl
wasn't available on NT 4.0, but to use fixacls on the NT
Server 4.0 Resource Kit Supplement One.
Well, I don't have the NT Server 4.0 Resource Kit Supplement
One.
The only thing not working on my system was that it was
impossible to launch any of the Office 97 suite from any of
their start menu shortcuts -- a window would pop up demanding
a username and password for access to \\<mycomputer>\D$.
However, I could start the Office 97 .exe files directly with
no problem, and I could create new shortcuts to the .exe
files and they worked correctly -- why?
I decided to re-install Office 97 from the CD and this fixed
the problem.
The "properties" of the new shortcuts (which worked) looked
the same as the old ones which no longer worked -- except for
their length, which was slightly longer for the old ones.
(Is there any way to see the entire shortcut contents?)
I would like to convert my C disk to NTFS as well, but I'm
now a bit scared by the tech bulletin that my system may no
longer work after I do this and that the only way to fix it
then would be to re-install (or install a second system root
-- for which I have not enough space). Is this a likely
problem?
Thanks,
Bob
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