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What is NTFS and FAT32?

They are formats (file systems) for your hard drive. For Windows 98SE
and before, FAT32 or FAT16 is the file type for your hard disk. NTFS is
the standard for Windows XP. People say that NTFS is faster than FAT32,
as it is far superior. Especially when defragmenting, FAT32 is way
slower.

When Can You Use This?

When you buy a external harddrive, the standard is FAT32. Annoying.
Moreover, some WinXP installations (in particular, XP upgrades) are done
on FAT32 drives.

So, Why Use NTFS over FAT32?

Let’s say you have FAT32. You want to unrar a large file (> 4 GB)
and Windows tells you that you cannot unpack it because you don’t have
enough hard drive space. Even if you do, you’ll still generate this
error. This is because FAT32 drives do not support large files on it
(anything over 4 GB). Mas mainam rin po ang security ng NTFS compared sa
FAT32.

Risk:

I’m not responsible for your actions! When converting FAT32 to NTFS,
you WILL NOT LOSE any files or data; however, there’s always the chance
that something can go wrong (remember, it is Microsoft, by the way).

Solution / How to Do It:

You don’t need to install a program to change the filetype from FAT32 to NTFS.

1. Press the Start button.

2. Type in "cmd" without the quotes, press Enter.

3. after opening cmd punta muna tayo sa "My Computer", and see
the name of the letter that stands in from of the drive you want to
convert!

4. once alam mo na yung drive letter balik na tayo sa cmd, Press in "CONVERT X: /FS:NTFS" (without the quotes). The X is for the letter your system drive, or external drive name. (see Step 5)

5. Yan na po, converted na yung drive niyo. Enjoy!

6. pero kapag may nag prompt na ganito: ‘convert lost chains top files Y/N?‘ press ‘y‘ and continue.

cmd will now check the file system and the rest. If your cmd finishes,
your file system is converted to NTFS. You can close down cmd. (If
you want to check if it really did finished, go to ‘My Computer’ and
right click on the drive, select ‘Properties’ to see what kind of file
system it has).

7. If cmd says: ‘X: was not converted to NFTS, the conversion failed etc, you must follow the next steps!

8. As you can see above, the cmd failed the first time. Next solution.

9. Sa cmd ulet, Type in "chkdsk X: /f", where X is the letter of your drive. Wait a while to finish.

10. You’ll be asked to ‘convert lost chains top files Y/N?‘ press ‘y‘ and continue. Wait for it to finish.

11. After this, cmd will say that converting was successful.
Check it by going to your computer, and single click on the drive to
see what kind of file system your drive has. Sigurado converted na yan.

• Tested and Working ko po sa Windows 7 Ultimate gamit ang Nano Imation USB 2gb
  
• Backup your files in case of unwanted error.
  
• Wala po akong screenshots dahil tinry ko muna bago ginawa yung thread.
  
• One way conversion lang po ito, meaning hindi po pwdeng vice-versa, FAT/FAT32 to NTFS lang talaga.
  
  

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