Convert FAT32 To NTFS File System Without Losing Data

                                     Before you convert a Disk Drive from FAT32 File system to NTFS, you need to know the importance of the NTFS file system.NTFS file system has many advantages as compared to FAT File System below are the some listed advantage using NTFS.

1. Allows indexing which improves file searching fast
2. Better security – file encryption not available in Fat32
3. Supports user's quota option
4. File compression to save disk space on Hard Disk
5. Supports larger files than FAT

                                          Once you convert a FAT32 partition to NTFS, you cannot simply convert it back to FAT32 with command line. You need to reformat this partition, of course, you will lose all data so make sure before doing any change take the backup.

1. Open Command Prompt :- Start  ---> Run ---> cmd
2. Follow the below mentioned Syntax

                        convert drive letter: /fs:ntfs

Eg :-     convert D:/fs:ntfs

Sample :-

C:\Users\ictops>convert D:/fs:ntfs

The type of the file system is FAT32.

Volume _ICTOPS created 3/1/2015 11:05 PM

Volume Serial Number is A024-4342

Windows is verifying files and folders...

File and folder verification is complete.

Windows has scanned the file system and found no problems.

No further action is required.

  15,616,992 KB total disk space.

           8 KB in 1 hidden files.

          72 KB in 2 files.

  15,616,904 KB are available.

       8,192 bytes in each allocation unit.

    1,952,124 total allocation units on disk.

    1,952,113 allocation units available on disk.

Determining disk space required for file system conversion...

Total disk space:              15633376 KB

Free space on volume:          15616904 KB

Space required for conversion:    81842 KB

Converting file system

Data error (cyclic redundancy check).