Wednesday 10 July 2013

How to Convert FAT32 to NTFS Without Losing Data

If you want to change your hard drive file system which is FAT32 and you want to change it into NTFS do not bother i have a simple trick which can easily do it for you without losing your data

FAT32 to NTFS transition



1 Go to Start and click on run type cmd.
2 Execute chkdsk C: /f  where C is the letter of the drive to undergo conversion. This will checks the drive for errors and fixes them automatically.
3 Execute  Convert C: /FS:NTFS  C  is again the letter of the drive to be converted.
4 The command prompt will start the process and after few minutes transition will be done successfully.
5 Now check the properties of the drive.




Keep in mind this will only works in windows XP windows 7 windows Vista and windows 8 and you also need to know that you cannot do NTFS file system back to FAT32 if you want to convert back you will lose all your data.

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