FAT32 is a file system supported by all operating systems. FAT means File Allocation Table. This provides maximum partition size of 32GB. Disk Quota management is not possible using this file system and the main problem here is the read mechanism. There exists sequence read mechanism under FAT32 and hence the transfer speed of data is very less. This reduces the performance of the system.
NTFS is a new file system and this is supported by all operating systems as well. NTFS means New Technology File System. This provides maximum partition size of 2TB which is very very large. There exists Disk Quota management feature enabled so that the disk can be used to store specified amount of data only. This file system provides Enhanced Binary Tree architecture and hence the transfer speed will be very very high and performance increase as well.
But the main problem is how to change the file system format from FAT32 too NTFS without erasing the data in the drive?
Techspace has an answer for this problem and the solution is very very simple.
Steps to convert from FAT32 to NTFS without erasing the data.
- Go to command prompt.
[stextbox id="grey"]convert C: /FS:NTFS[/stextbox]
- Enter the above command in command prompt and wait till the process completes. After the process is completed, the specified drive will be converted to NTFS without erasing your data on the drive.
- In my case, C: is the drive which i have taken into account. If you want to format your drive, then you can specify that corresponding letter.
- FS: means File System.
- convert will convert that corresponding drive to NTFS without erasing the data in that drive.
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