Convert Fat32 drives with Data into NTFS

Do you want to upgrade from Fat32 Drives to NTFS when you have your important data, then you got your hands on the right post.

Converting your Fat32 disk is a very easy task. You can run this command from the Windows XP command prompt. Formatting will also help convert the file system, but warning is we cannot do this if we have data, because formatting erases the data. So to convert safely without losing the data, we got to use this command only; we cannot convert from Disk management.

Just type the command convert D: /fs:ntfs, considering D: is the drive to be converted and give Enter. Give Volume label when prompted. You can find it in My Computer, and see what name is displayed with your drive, give enter when done. It takes few seconds based on the size of Drive and it’s done.

Be sure you want this conversion or not. NTFS drives cannot be accessed from win98 or previous versions. See that you have an UPS before running command, because if power fails during the conversion process, you might lose all data. Microsoft does not recommend taking this risk.