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Norton PartitionMagic 75
NTFS Information Lost When Converting to FAT or FAT32
If you can complete the conversion from NTFS to FAT or FAT32, you may receive a
warning about the quality of data and feature loss, depending on the features used on the
partition, the type of data, and the partition size.
Warning Description
Error The conversion is not allowed. Because the partition being converted
is using advanced features in NTFS, you may experience unintended
data and feature loss. You will receive an error in one or more of the
following cases:
• There is more than one data stream for any file.
• Any links.
• Any extended attributes.
• Any user-defined attributes in any file.
• Device entries.
• There are sparse files on the volume. Any sparse files, except for
the bad sector file, will stop the conversion.
Warning The conversion is allowed. Although a conversion warning is not as
serious as an error, you may still experience the loss of NTFS-specific
features that are not supported in FAT or FAT32. You will receive a
conversion warning in one or more of the following cases:
• Disk usage quotas - NTFS supports limiting the amount of disk
space for a user. After conversion, all users will have full access
to all free hard disk space.
• Access control lists - This is a file attribute that lists all the users
that can access a file. After conversion, all users will have full
access to all files.
• Index of access control lists - A list of all files that have specific
access rights assigned to them. After conversion, all users will
have full access to all files.
• FAST index file - This file is sometimes created on Windows
2000 computers. After conversion, all indexing of keywords will
be lost.
• Old versions of files - NTFS has the ability to keep versions of
files, however, only the current version of the file is converted
and saved.