nothing at all, the other way around is way trickier ;-)
surely you don't have a backup in place if anything goes bad, do you?
just make sure you don't have any software installed that needs to be
started up from DOS
certain disk management utilities or bootmanagers come to my mind, but
they are exceptions
nothing at all, the other way around is way trickier ;-)
surely you don't have a backup in place if anything goes bad, do you?
just make sure you don't have any software installed that needs to be
started up from DOS
certain disk management utilities or bootmanagers come to my mind, but
they are exceptions
You can safely convert your current hard drive to NTFS whenever
desired, without having to format the partition and reinstall
everything. As always when performing any serious changes, back up any
important data before proceeding, just in case. A little advance
preparation is also strongly recommended, so you can avoid any
performance hits caused by the default cluster size:
Not true. There's a very serious issue if you don't adequately prepare for
the conversion. You will very likely end up with 512-byte clusters instead
of the default 4K ones, with a consequent loss in performance.
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.
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