I love my Acer Tablet PC. Okay - sure - there are things I'd love to see improved and I'd like a new one. But, all that aside I love it.
However I've got one issue - it came with the had drive formated as FAT32. I let it go, even though I would get the "needs fixing" bluescreen at least once a week after a fresh boot. When it came time a couple of months ago to re-build her, I of course wanted to NTFS the drive.
BUT... no can do. The Tablet version of Windows XP that came with the machine isn't your standard Windows CD, no sir. It's a fancy-pants Acer boot cd with other little apps added to it. Which is nice 'n all, BUT... it doesn't give me much control over the Windows install and it doesn't give me an option (as far as I can tell) to NTFS the freakin' drive.
So... I'm still stuck with this FAT32 monstrosity.
Any ideas from you geeks out there? How do I pimp this beeatch?
Convert C: /FS:NTFS
Should work.
Posted by: Ben | Wednesday, August 24, 2005 at 04:10 PM
Thanks Ben, I'll try that and see what happens when I re-introduce the Acer CD.
Posted by: Cameron Reilly | Wednesday, August 24, 2005 at 04:15 PM
Good luck. Ive had a similar problem before, and that worked for me.
Let us know how it turns out.
Posted by: Ben | Wednesday, August 24, 2005 at 04:32 PM
Full details on Convert at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q307881
Posted by: Aaron Robinson | Friday, August 26, 2005 at 12:57 AM
Aaron you da man! That looks like everything I need! Thanks man.
Posted by: Cameron Reilly | Friday, August 26, 2005 at 01:29 AM
Yes, it *should* work.
Posted by: Tejas Patel | Friday, August 26, 2005 at 02:27 PM