Danny Kearns Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 How can i change my hard drive from fat32 to ntfs with out loosing anything on my hard drive ?Dan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smo™ Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 Not sure you can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Kearns Posted June 30, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 Not sure you can.Is that definatly or just not sure ?Dan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smo™ Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 Well, to change the file system you need to format. I've never heard of anyone bypassing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JT! Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 I asked this question ages ago and there is away to do it, but it's a bit dodgy and you could loose files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 I'm 90% sure you can do it with Partition Magic, without losing any data or whatever. I think I've done it before, although I can't quite remember. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBProductions Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 I don't think it can be done because your having to use change the entire contents of the drive. Just back it up and reinstall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
br3n Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 google: fat32 to ntfs gave me this result (first click)http://www.ntfs.com/quest3.htm--Q: Is it possible to convert a FAT32 Hard Drive to NTFS without losing all data on the drive? I like to change from FAT32 to NTFS, my operating system is Windows XP PRO, how can I do that? Without the lost of my programs?A: Standard Windows utility that is called CONVERT serves this purposeJust go to the Command Prompt and execute the command: C:\> CONVERT C: /fs:ntfsWhere C: is a name of the drive you want to convert.After machine re-boot conversion process will start and you'll have your FAT32 converted to NTFS without of data loss. ^ use google... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smo™ Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 google: fat32 to ntfs gave me this result (first click)http://www.ntfs.com/quest3.htm--^ use google...Heh, no shit. I thought it was a no no. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 As trials-mad said theres a simple dos command to do it. Ive done it a couple of times without any problems. It takes a while though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamtrials Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 As trials-mad said theres a simple dos command to do it. Ive done it a couple of times without any problems. It takes a while though.Why is ntfs better? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munkee Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 Why is ntfs better? http://cquirke.mvps.org/ntfs.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 Why is ntfs better?Supposedly faster, and allows file sizes of over a certain size. Also the max size of a Fat32 partition that Windows likes is 32Gb. I don't think you can notice a speed difference though, and Fat32 is compatible with other operating systems if you're running them on the same system (E.g. dual booting linux and Windows or something).95% of people should use NTFS though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 NTFS also allows more security stuff like user permissions etc.The main reason for NTFS is to store those 4gb dvd images that fat32 cant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomturd Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 Plus its a journaled file system, meaning data gets written to a log before it gets written to disk, only once its written to disk does it get removed from the log. If the computer crashes, when it is started up again, the log is 'replayed' and the data which didn't have the chance to be written can be written, ensuring safe start ups from a known state every time. Thats a pretty big reason, and also why with NTFS you don't get the annoying disk check when you start up after a crash, like you do with non jounaled file systems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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