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XP: Convert Fat32 to NTFS | Windows | Tech-Recipes

Started by qdideas · 9 months ago

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  • FYI,
    It should be like this
    1. Click Start
    2. Select Run from the Start menu
    3. Type cmd in the textbox and click OK
    4. In the command window that opens type the following:

    convert c: /fs:ntfs (Forward slash rather backward slash)

    Cheers
    Chan
  • Thanks!

    Recipe is corrected!
  • I've done the c: /fs:ntfs command. But the system refuses to convert stating that there was an error converting one of the Directories. It just stopped and refuses to convert. I can see the files ex; image.jpg BUT it can't read it.

    Any ideas? :?
  • <ul id="quote"><h6>Nat wrote:</h6>I've done the c: /fs:ntfs command. But the system refuses to convert stating that there was an error converting one of the Directories. It just stopped and refuses to convert. I can see the files ex; image.jpg BUT it can't read it.

    Any ideas? :?</ul>

    From the command line run:
    <ul>chkdsk c: /f

    where c: is your drive of interest</ul> Reboot, let windows try to repair the errors, and see if that helps.
  • I recieve an error when I go to convert one of my drives. My C drive converted easily, but my E drive always has the same error message: "cannot determine file system of drive". Help?
  • try defragmenting the particular drive under the Admin account
  • Does convert format the drive?
  • Stefanie.... convert only changes the format of the drive... it does not format your drive (as in wiping it clean). Convert will leave all your files and data intact. However, it is still a great idea to have your hdd backed up just in case something does go wrong. But since we ALL keep recent backups anyway, that shouldn't be a problem. ;-)
  • i tried to do it in an externat drive (conected via usb) and it says:
    CONVERT is not available for RAW units

    what should i do?
  • i'm not able to convert my usb drive
  • i ve just done it on my external harddrive. It doesn't format the disk, everything is like it were. Not any loss of data. If the conversion fails try to fix the file system errors on the disk and then convert. It happened to me. The file system errors are gone and conversion was successful then. it works just fine. thx

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