Convert from FAT32 to NTFS

[Darrell S]

My brother in Texas wants to convert his hard drive to NTFS. I converted
mine a couple years ago and have forgotten how I did it. I right click My
Computer and choose Manage. Then click on Storage..... Disk Management. It
seems I was able to right click my C: drive and choose to Convert to NTFS
but I don't see any conversion options now. Is that because I've already
converted to NTFS and conversion back to FAT or FAT32 is not allowed?

That is: If I have him do the same thing will he see the Convert option. I
know how to use convert.exe from DOS to do it but he's not very "quick"
with complicated things. Any advice I can give him?

 

[R. McCarty]

You do a conversion from either a command line or command prompt.
Syntax is simply Convert C: /FS:NTFS
That assumes that the drive for conversion is C:

There is a chance that the resulting NTFS might use 512 Byte clusters,
instead of the normal 4K. I would suggest you backup important data
before the conversion.

 

[Ken Blake]

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My brother in Texas wants to convert his hard drive to NTFS. I
converted mine a couple years ago and have forgotten how I did
it. I
right click My Computer and choose Manage. Then click on
Storage..... Disk Management.

To convert to NTFS, you use the CONVERT command. But first read
http://www.aumha.org/a/ntfscvt.htm because there's an issue
regarding cluster size that isn't obvious.

Also note that conversion is a big step, affecting everything on
your drive. When you take such a big step, no matter how
unlikely, it is always possible that something could go wrong.
For that reason, it's prudent to make sure you have a backup of
anything you can't afford to lose before beginning.

It seems I was able to right click my
C: drive and choose to Convert to NTFS but I don't see any
conversion
options now. Is that because I've already converted to NTFS
and
conversion back to FAT or FAT32 is not allowed?

Yes. Windows provides no way to convert from NTFS to any form of
FAT. To do so requires a third-party utility such as Partition
Magic.