"Quite" safe? No, it's an operation that involves the entire
drive, and there's therefore risk. The risk is small, but not
zero. If, for example, there's a power failure while it's in
progress, you could end up unable to read anything on the drive.
For that reason, it's prudent to make sure you have a backup of
anything you can't afford to lose before beginning.
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.
Yes, its generally safe. However, ALL major operations of this kind should
not be carried out until you have made a good backup of anything on that
disk you really care about.
in order to change the fs from fat32 or fat to ntft do the following:
click on start
click on run
type in "cmd"
type in "cd c:\"
type in "convert c: /fs:ntfs"
(DON'T PUT IN THE QUOTATIONS)
in order to change the fs from fat32 or fat to ntft do the
following:
click on start
click on run
type in "cmd"
type in "cd c:\"
type in "convert c: /fs:ntfs"
(DON'T PUT IN THE QUOTATIONS)
Simply doing as you suggest is *not* a good idea, since you will
very likely end up with 512 byte clusters, and take a performance
hit. Read here first: http://www.aumha.org/a/ntfscvt.htm
You can safely convert the partition 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:
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having
both at once. - RAH
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