this post was submitted on 07 Sep 2025
344 points (98.0% liked)

iiiiiiitttttttttttt

1339 readers
13 users here now

you know the computer thing is it plugged in?

A community for memes and posts about tech and IT related rage.

founded 7 months ago
MODERATORS
 

Transcript

A picture of Noahs Ark. It has the caption "How I feel Gathering all my files before reinstalling windows"

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

But then I have to spend the next week moving file between drives to I can format them away from NTFS.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Linux can read and write NTFS just fine. I've been using that functionality for years.

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Unless they’re the ones that store your Steam library.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Ditto.

That okay, I haven’t used Windows at home in years.

[–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Here’s a tool that does an in-place conversion to btrfs (and keeps an image of the original partition saved after it’s done)

https://github.com/maharmstone/ntfs2btrfs

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Nice mate, saving that one for later.