Open the command prompt with Run as administrator otherwise open the command prompt in elevated mode. In order to prevent the data loss back up of the important data that you don't want to lose Before start converting the drive close all the files and application opened from the drive.īefore start converting the disk to NTFS take a back up of the drive data as it might corrupt the data some time. You need some space on your hard disk in order to convert the partition to NTFS. If the hard disk is in other formats like UDF or CDF then you cannot that volume to NTFS. Windows XP/Vista and 7 is having an option to convert a hard disk volume from FAT32 to NTFS. You need to format the computer with FAT32 partition and you need to reinstall the operating system. Windows XP/Vista/7 support NTFS and as well as FAT32 partition.Ĭonverting from FAT32 to NTFS is a one way you cannot revert back to FAT32 from NTFS. Windows 98 or ME will not support NTFS partition. NTFS partition includes better security.Supports larger files up to 2 Terabytes in size.It allows indexing the files system which improves the file search.

It does not support a big file which is more than 4 GB, while NTFS (New Technology File System) supports more than 4 GB and NTFS supports up to 2 terabytes in size.

Hard disk can be partitioned into FAT, FAT32 and NTFS.įile Allocation Table (FAT) file system was developed by IBM for MS-DOS and floppy disks. Hard disk partition is to split the drives in order to organize the files in each drives to access the files in an efficient manner. How to convert a FAT partition to NTFS in Windows 7

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