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System image problem
#1
First of all, my internal HD is a SSD which is almost 4 yrs old - so I decided to make a System Image in case it dies, but Windows 7 System Image tells me that I cannot because the specified volume is formatted as FAT32.

When I looked at the SSD in Disk Management, sure enough it says that partition 0 is FAT32 and partition 1 - 'C' - is NTFS. My other 2 external drives are NTFS.

Question #1 --- How did that happen? Why did my Windows 7 installation disk do this, if it would break the System Image tool?

Question #2 --- Is it safe to convert 'partition 0' from FAT32 to NTFS ? Will it erase the data or will it simply change FAT32 to NTFS.

Question #3 --- How do I convert it if it doesn't have a drive letter? Would the the command prompt -- C: /FS:NTFS -- work?

Question #4 --- If I decided to reinstall using my Windows 7 disc, how would I make sure that this doesn't happen again? Where did I go wrong the first time?

It's been 4 yrs, but I'm pretty sure Windows didn't ask me if I wanted to split the disk into FAT32/NTFS.

Thanks
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#2
Can you take a screen shot of Disk Management and post it on here.
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(10-18-2015, 11:20 AM)Britec Wrote:  Can you take a screen shot of Disk Management and post it on here.

Here it is...

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Just convert to NTFS 
Here's how.
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(10-18-2015, 05:44 PM)Britec Wrote:  Just convert to NTFS 
Here's how.

Ok, I'll give it a try...thanks
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