Be careful. I think you can only use it as a network drive if you keep it as fat32
Paul----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Threadgold" <m.j.threadgold@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 10:16 AM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Converting a network disk to ntfs
Thanks George. I read the pdf manual that came with the drive and it made no mention of repartioning or formatting in it that I saw. I was surprised as in the tools for the drive there is a disk check facility but not a defrag one. This again seemed strange as it was a fat32 volume. I'll go back to the book and see if I can find where it was mentioned. Regards, Mark Threadgold Of all the things I have ever lost, The one I miss most is my mind... -----Original Message-----From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf OfGeorge Bell Sent: 19 November 2008 10:10 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: Converting a network disk to ntfs Hi Mark, According to the manual you can re-partition, as well as format partitions on the drive to NTFS, which suggests that there is no reason why NTFS Convert will not work. However, I suggest you study the manual carefully as you will need to take into account Freecom's network operation. George. -----Original Message----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark Threadgold Sent: 19 November 2008 09:56 To: accessuk list Subject: [access-uk] Converting a network disk to ntfs Hi all. Having just got a Freecom 1TB network drive, I was amazed to see it is formatted with fat32. I copied over 50GB of audio from an ntfs drive and the difference in size on disk is 200MB. Ie, it is 50.2GB on the fat32 network drive and only 50GB on the ntfs drive. If you extrapolate this out to 1TB it means there is likely to be about 4GB lost due to the drive formatting type. Is it possible to use the convert command to change the Freecom drive to ntfs, please? I am convinced if I could do this then the data storage would be much more efficient. It is presently mapped and accessible through the network, but could be connected via usb2 to do this if necessary. Cheers, Mark Threadgold Of all the things I have ever lost, The one I miss most is my mind... ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq__________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3623 (20081118) __________The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com
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