Convert XP C Drive from Fat32 to NTFS

Discussion in 'Windows Virtual Machine' started by PTTurboe, Mar 4, 2017.

  1. PTTurboe

    PTTurboe Junior Member

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    Hello All,

    I was trying to increase my VM size of my W XP VM. I was online with support and they figured out I could not increase the size from 32 GB because the C drive is in Fat32. (It was a bootcamp a long time ago I guess.)

    They said to add another XP install and then join the two.

    But I have searched around and seems there are a few ways to convert the Fat32 C drive to NTFS. One using convert.exe and some others with partition tools.

    Seems pretty simple? Has anyone done it?

    I have copied my XP VM to an external drive as a backup. And have snapshots. Plus I will run a Time Machine too.

    I am running Sierra 10.12.3 on a Macbook Pro with Parallels 12.

    Questions:

    1.) Is copying a VM as good/safe to an external drive as safe as a Time Machine back up? Just copy it back if the above fails?

    2.) Anyone done this?

    3.) Advice?

    Thanks!

    Dave
     

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