Cannot Convert to NTFS

From: Ahsan (ahsan_burki_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/10/03 

Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 03:01:17 -0700

Hi,
 i am having a problem with converting the file system from FAT To NTFS, i have checked all the ways that i could think could do this job these include using of third party disk managament softares. Basically i am using windows xp and i have 20 gig of hdd. and i have four partitions all of round about 4, gegs. two of them are using FAT File system and the other two are using ext2fs file system and i have installed windows xp on the first partition and Linux on the third partition . the problem with me is that i did not converted the filesystem of my partition to ntfs during the windows xp installation. and now i want to convert it to ntfs from fat32 file system. but i am unable to covert it when i convert it using the dos command for file system convert it goes well but in the end it says that unable to notify other services and the result is that that parition is un accessible and all the data on it is lost all i have to do to acces it is to format it wiht FAT 32 and then acces it .also when i format it with NTFS form the right click format caommand in windows xp it says windows was unable to format the drive. and when i use the Power Quest Partition Magic it gives me an error no 514 and i dont know what that means i have also checked all the menuals and the help files and the help system of Partition magic to find what this error means but i could not find what that error no means.

so if anyone of u know how to solve this problem and take me out of it i would be very thankful to u

also one question from the readers that where could i find news gruoups like msnews.microsoft.com which i could view in Outlook Express. i would be very thankful to u if u tell me some other newsgroups that i could view in outlook express or tell me some link where i could find these newsgroups, Preferably about Linux
_==:Dr Ahsan Ullah Burki :==_