Occasionally on startup Windows has asked in the chkdsk blue screen to
check my D: drive for incompatibility. Theres a time out to skip if I feel like it but windows recommends I continue with the checkdisk run.

This doesnt happen every time I start up. Has haapened about three times
in a 14 day period.

My C: Drive runs with FTNS but my D Drive is still on FAT32. Is that an incompatibility issue and how do I change the D Drive to run FTNS. It doesnt seem to want to change as easily as I changed the C drive.

My C drive has been on that FTNS for about a year and its only last fortnight Windows is asking to check D: on start up.

have a look here to convert FAT32 to NTFS

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../bb456984.aspx

have you tried defragging the drive?

Open Command Prompt. Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Accessories, and then click Command Prompt.

In the command prompt window, type: convert drive_letter: /fs:ntfs

Above is the guidance found in your link which I'd found on google last night before posting here . There is a second command prompt which the user has to input not shown on this link and thats is where I'm falling down.

I did the above and then the command program asks for what drive or format it was previously? Or something like that. Run Command doesnt like my answer to that. The D: remains as a FAT32 partition.

I havnt defragged the D: drive for some time so I'll try that.

the command is

convert D: /fs:ntfs

Done that as I said. Second command prompt line opens on my machine after entering "convert D: /fs:ntfs" return. I hate DOS!

I give up. I'll leave it as FAT32 it clearly wants to remain as that!
Defragged the drive and PC's started up fine for a few start ups.

Thanks anyway