You can do it, Crusoe. Enter Disk Management and right click the drive you want to change over. Once there, click on Format and it will allow you to reformat it NTFS.
If I remember right, it’ll let you change from FAT to NTFS quite easily, but doesn’t like it the other way around.
In terms of the other hijack, thanks Quar for the more expanded explanation. That makes a bit more sense.
I have a couple more questions down that line, especially regarding Windows 2000 and DOS, but I’d like to double check what I’m thinking and at least narrow down the question I think I still have.
Thanks everyone. The convert.exe utility converted from FAT to NTFS in no time and with no fuss (and most importantly, no missing files). I haven’t seen any performance gains yet, but I’m sure they’ll be there eventually. The XP help files claim you cannot convert from NTFS to FAT at all unless you wipe and reformat the drive.
Speaker, go to the DOS command prompt, go to your KaZaA shared file directory, and try to delete it that way. I’ve had files I didn’t want ‘stick’ when KaZaA’s crashed while using/finishing downloading them. That fixed it for me.
…and removes compatibility with other operating systems that you may dual boot, such as Win9x, WinME, Linux, *BSD, and so on. If this isn’t a problem for you, then fire away!
Okay. I logged in in Safe Mode, and deleted it. It said "This program name is too long to move, would you like to delete it permanently? I said yes. Problem solved.
My luck isn’t that good. I got it again, this time downloading music sighs, I again logged into safe mode, but this time it wouldn’t let me delete it, giving me the message “Cannot delete BRITNE~1.GIF: File not Found.”