NASLite Network Attached Storage

I have a 320G SATA HD thats stuffed with movies on a windows PC. My Naslite-2 CDD is now up and running and I want to transfer the drive to that machine.

I had to get a PCI SATA controller to do it. When it was all set up I powered on and NAS-Lite saw the drive but the only option I had was to format. I think I remember this happening with the first drive I set up, but that was an empty, so no big deal. Do I really have to move all the 300G of data off this drive and format it to get it to work with Nas-lite? Only so I can transfer it all back again? Needless to say, thats a huge hassle. Im not even sure I have enough swap space to pull it off.

Thanks much

M

Your windows drive and NASLite use completely different file systems so yes, it needs to be reformatted.

AFAIK, there are no tools to do a file system conversion between NTFS (or FAT32) and EXT3 but I have not looked into it extensively. And even if there was, if you care about the data that much, I would not recommend something along those lines without a good backup of the data since file system conversions are a risky proposition (Microsoft has a tool that converts FAT partitions to NTFS and there is no way I would trust it with the only copy of my data).