Thursday, 8 May 2014

How to convert FAT partition to NTFS partition without formatting.

FAT was old file system and was popular with windows 98 after the development of Windows 2000 New file system NTFS was introduced with data security and encryption, But Operating System such as Windows 2000 and Windows XP was having both the options for Hard Disk partitioning and now Latest Operating Systems such as Windows Vista/7/8/8.1 do not use FAT file system. If one of our har disk partition is formatted with old FAT file system then we can convert that partition or USB pen drive with NTFS file system without loosing data. The command we use is convert. There is also a limitation with FAT file system by which we can not copy more than 1 GB single file from PC to Pen Drive. To do so we need to format or convert our Pen Drive to NTFS file system.










convert drive_letter: /fs:ntfs

If we want to convert D Drive then the command is 

convert d: /fs:ntfs


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