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    convert ext3 to ntfs WITHOUT loosing data... PLEASE:(

    as the name suggests I cannot loose all the data and no way am I backing it all up!
    I can't use partition magic 8 in vista either:@
    any ideas guys.
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    You have no hope what so ever of converting ext3 to ntfs, you'll have to do a backup on a neutral filesystem (like fat32/vfat) first, then reformat the partition.
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    i heard somewhere that i could convert ext3 to fat/fat32 then obviously that to ntfs...
    i thought I'd have to do the above:\
    Quote Originally Posted by Fraz regarding the Apple Mighty Mouse
    I just got so fed up with this thing for it's crappy erratically working scroll ball and poor right-click detection that I just threw it against a wall and it exploded.

    Good riddance. Wish I'd done it about a year ago.

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    There is the linux convertfs program, but it's buggy and chances are it'll nuke your data, *especially* if it's interrupted for any reason (been there, done that, wore the regret i didn't backup t-shirt). You'll save yourself a lot of time and potential headaches by just backing up first.
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    is there a windows alternative (yn) pleeeease.
    also even after making it xp sp2 compatible etc etc ext2ifs will not show my ext3 drives in vista to copy the data to a spare drive any ideas guys?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fraz regarding the Apple Mighty Mouse
    I just got so fed up with this thing for it's crappy erratically working scroll ball and poor right-click detection that I just threw it against a wall and it exploded.

    Good riddance. Wish I'd done it about a year ago.

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    Get a fat drive ready to copy to and boot a Linux live CD. Copy over from there then it should all be fine and dandy. Good luck!

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    the best advice I can offer on this is use native file system formats only.

    eg: Windows does have an ext2 driver for windows - but is buggy and can cause data corruption
    eg: Linux does have NTFS drivers but they are read only - write support is buggy (and still not classed as production with NTFS-3G)

    If you want cross OS compatability fat32 is the only real read/write compatible OS.

    Don't try to convert file systems, there are tools, but as with above they are buggy (despite people saying works for me) and there is a good chance of data loss and corruption, which you sound like you don't want to lose.

    Use multiple DVD/hard disks to remove your data - then destory and reformat the partition. Is the only really safe way.
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    cheers mate yeah thats what I think I'm going to do.
    Quote Originally Posted by Fraz regarding the Apple Mighty Mouse
    I just got so fed up with this thing for it's crappy erratically working scroll ball and poor right-click detection that I just threw it against a wall and it exploded.

    Good riddance. Wish I'd done it about a year ago.

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    NTFS-£G is a fully supported application under fedora core 6 and is available from Fedora-extras. This quote is from the Fedora-project site at http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...w/ntfs-3g.html .


    ntfs-3g - Linux NTFS userspace driver
    The ntfs-3g driver is an open source, GPL licensed, third generation
    Linux NTFS driver. It provides full read-write access to NTFS, excluding
    access to encrypted files, writing compressed files, changing file
    ownership, access right.

    Technically it’s based on and a major improvement to the third
    generation Linux NTFS driver, ntfsmount. The improvements include
    functionality, quality and performance enhancements.

    ntfs-3g features are being merged to ntfsmount. In the meanwhile,
    ntfs-3g is currently the only free, as in either speech or beer, NTFS
    driver for Linux that supports unlimited file creation and deletion..
    However this is NOT a filesystem conversion tool, but you could create an NTFS partition and then copy the data from the ext3 partition to the NTFS - cutting out the FAT32 intermediate stage. At worst your windows ssytem wouldn't read it, but as it is a copy you have the original data intact. At best you save yourself some time. (I don't know which linux distro you are using - but the odds are thgat NTFS-3g would work with that - otherwise you could burn an FC6 live disk)

    But as others have said - for maximum data integrity, don't try fs conversion tools (without backing up the data first)
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    I've found ntfs-3g to work perfectly find for reading and writing files from/to NTFS partitions. I've done some large writes with many files and run full windows disk check afterwards and everything's been fine.

    It would be nice if some day some one would write a standard, universal file system that is usable by all OS's. This problem is age-old now and it's ridiculous. If only there was some native support driver for reiserfs/ext3 for windows, I'd be so happy!

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    Quote Originally Posted by trusz View Post
    I've found ntfs-3g to work perfectly find for reading and writing files from/to NTFS partitions. I've done some large writes with many files and run full windows disk check afterwards and everything's been fine.

    It would be nice if some day some one would write a standard, universal file system that is usable by all OS's. This problem is age-old now and it's ridiculous. If only there was some native support driver for reiserfs/ext3 for windows, I'd be so happy!
    While a nice idea, it isn't really practicable. Apart from the fact that NTFS is proprietary FS evolve to meet various needs. NTFS evolved from FAT 32 which in turn evolved from FSAT. The evolution from FAT was to allow biggerr partitions - NTFS adds additional security functionality.

    Ext 3 evolved from Ext2 toi add journalling. Other file systems such as reiserfs offer other advantages for specific applications - usually performance related. Some are more efficient when handling large numbers of small file, some for large files, some for database applications. So while NTFS and Ext3 are fine for general purpose applications, larger dedicated servers may benefit from alternatives.
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