fat to ntfs

[Bill W]

I want to convert my fat32 drive to ntfs. Is there anything I need to do or
be aware of before running the converter? Thank you.

 

[chriske911]

Bill W explained :

I want to convert my fat32 drive to ntfs. Is there anything I need to do or
be aware of before running the converter? Thank you.

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

grtz

 

[Bill W]

I will definitely do a backup. Thanks

Bill W explained :

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

grtz

 

[Guest]

Yeah one major issue, you will no longer be able to boot from MSDOS Floppy
and see what's on your hd, you will need NTFSDOS

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I want to convert my fat32 drive to ntfs. Is there anything I need to do or
be aware of before running the converter? Thank you.

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:

Converting FAT32 to NTFS in Windows
http://www.aumha.org/a/ntfscvt.htm


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[Rock]

I want to convert my fat32 drive to ntfs. Is there anything I need to do or
be aware of before running the converter? Thank you.

Review this link first. http://aumha.org/win5/a/ntfscvt.htm

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Bill W explained :

nothing at all,

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.


Bill, read here before starting the conversion:
http://www.aumha.org/a/ntfscvt.htm

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.