Please help me, knowledgeable people! A year or so back I "upgraded" my Dell Pentium 4 from WinME to WinXP. Now, after a series of hardware problems in warrenty, Dell has shipped me a new system. I have to ship the old one back pretty soon, but have temporarilly installed my old hard disk in the new machine to copy selected files onto the new hard disk. ( I know there are other options, but for various reasons I think I had better stay with this one.) The old machine is unusable.
The old hard disk is in the FAT32 format, the new one NTFS. This causes problems when I try to access old files, especially my Finale files. (I have backups for some, but not all, of my Finale files.) I have found directions for converting the entire drive to NTFS, but I am very nervous about this, fearing that I the resulting .MUS files may be unusable. I have painstakenly copied all of the Finale files that I can access, but several of my newer files (mostly ones I created or changed under XP) are not accessible. Typically, when I click on a folder I get "that drive is not formatted - do you wish to format?" Are my fears warranted? Should I bite the bullet and run the: convert F: /fs:ntfs /v or should I try to find somebody with a WinME machine that will let me install this hard drive and get at my files? or what? Ray Horton Bass Trombonist Louisville Orchestra _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
