[snowden]

jaclaz, thanx for these methods, i'm gonna look into them now!

as for BootIt NG, it is not commercial if you use it only as a partition editor (ie you don't install it to your harddisk, you just boot into maintenance mode from a cdrom).

also thanx for the FAT32 tip, i totally overlooked it because i'm so vexed with nlite not working the way i expect it to.

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Though the convert.exe does not appear to have ever caused problems, I find, at least theoretically, safer the newish "direct" method as the volume is natively formatted as NTFS by Windows setup, as in a "normal" install.

Well i let windows setup do this anyway, just the resize part i overlooked! For some reason i thought FAT32 wasn't readable from DOS, but as you say, it is with recent dos versions.

This post has been edited by snowden: 07 May 2007 - 07:04 AM

[jaclaz]

Well, it is a pleasure, and by the way that's the base of a tech forum like MSFN is, to exchange ideas and (hopefully) find solutions.

Just as an example, at the time of the 911CD post I was convinced that to have NTFS one would need to complete install as FAT/FAT32 and later run convert.exe, now, if I get it right, you just pointed out and confirmed that Windows Setup can convert the filesystem to NTFS even if the source files are on it?

jaclaz