I was following the procedures that Ibanewiz kindly posted. I too ran into that response: "Convert cannot run because the volume is in use..." and "Would you like to force a dismount"
I didn't read Gary's procedures until after I made the mistake of forcing the dismount. After the reboot, I received the friendly message that the "BOOTMGR cannot be found". Somewhere during the process of trying to convert my FAT32 volume to NTFS,
I inadvertently made this OS volume inactive. Also, the system assigned my OS volume a random drive letter.
These are the steps that I took to get to my volume and make it active again:
Boot to the OS DVD>Select Repair OS>Go to the command prompt
DISKPART>Select Disk 0 (in my case)
DISKPART>list volume (I noticed my OS volume 2 was assigned a random drive letter)
DISKPART>select volume 2 (in my case)
DISKPART>remove letter=X (the drive letter assigned to your OS volume)
DISKPART>active
This did fix the problem and all is well. I hope my contribution comes in useful for someone.
Regards, James
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oneofjames
Friday, February 15, 2013 7:35 PM