Converting an 80 GB External USB hard disk into NTFS

[Rimo]

Hi all,
I have purchased an external USB 80 GB hard disk that was formatted with
FAT32. I did not notice that really till after saving lots of data on it.
Now
when I wanted to convert the file system into NTFS, it failed. I tried both
the convert command and Partitionm Magic 8.0 but both failed. I presume that
they failed due to the fact that they must have seen an error as the Max
hard
disk size that FAT32 supports is 32GB. So Appearantly the hard disk was not
formatted using the "Computer Management" utility in Windows XP. I do not
wish to reformat the hard disk cause I saved lots of data on it already.

So can anyone help me convert it into NTFS? I really appreciate your help.

 

[bud]

Hi all,
I have purchased an external USB 80 GB hard disk that was formatted with
FAT32. I did not notice that really till after saving lots of data on it.
Now
when I wanted to convert the file system into NTFS, it failed. I tried
both
the convert command and Partitionm Magic 8.0 but both failed. I presume
that
they failed due to the fact that they must have seen an error as the Max
hard
disk size that FAT32 supports is 32GB. So Appearantly the hard disk was
not
formatted using the "Computer Management" utility in Windows XP. I do not
wish to reformat the hard disk cause I saved lots of data on it already.

So can anyone help me convert it into NTFS? I really appreciate your
help.

Go into device manager and find your usb hard drive under disk drives. Right
click it and choose properties. Go to the policy tab and change it to
"optimize for performance". Click ok and try again to convert the drive to
NTFS.