Microsoft KB Archive/271644

= Cannot Convert FAT32 to NTFS with IDE Drive Larger Than 20 GB =

Article ID: 271644

Article Last Modified on 2/21/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Edition

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This article was previously published under Q271644



SYMPTOMS
If you install Windows 2000 from a CD-ROM to a 20-gigabyte (GB) hard disk that uses the FAT32 file system, the installation succeeds. However, when you attempt to convert the file system to the NTFS file system by using the convert c: /fs:ntfs command, the conversion may not succeed. Even though the hard disk has several GB of free space you may receive the following error message:

The type of the file system is FAT32.

Determining disk space required for file system conversion...

Insufficient disk space for conversion

The conversion failed.

C: was not converted to ntfs



CAUSE
The logical block address (LBA) is not calculated correctly for certain large Integrated Device Electronics (IDE) drives.



RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

260910 How to Obtain the Latest Windows 2000 Service Pack

The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:   Date     Time   Version        Size    File name ---  8/8/00   6:55p  5.0.2195.2103  85,168  Atapi.sys 4/27/00 5:05   5.0.2195.2073   4,432  Intelide.sys 4/27/00 5:05   5.0.2195.2073   3,088  Pciide.sys 4/27/00 5:05   5.0.2195.2073  21,936  Pciidex.sys



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Windows 2000 Service Pack 2.



MORE INFORMATION
For additional information about how to install Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 hotfixes at the same time, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

249149 Installing Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 Hotfixes

Keywords: kbhotfixserver kbqfe kbbug kbfix kbwin2000presp2fix KB271644

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