Linggo, Nobyembre 11, 2012

How to convert a Hard Disk or a USB flash drive from FAT32 to NTFS


Introduction:

                      Are you having trouble in copying high-quality films, big file size, etc. to your USB flash drive. This must be the problem. Most USB flash drive today is preformatted as FAT32 format. Which is FAT32 format can't handle files larger than about 4 GB. Like me, I'm annoyed at it. And after a long time of research. I've found that you must change your FAT32 to NTFS to copy this files with a big size. You can do this by formatting the USB flash drive or your Hard Drive (So before you do this, if you have any files. Just backup it somewhere.). You can also change it without formatting it. But you cannot turn NTFS back to FAT32 without formatting the USB or Hard Drive.

Formatting method:

Using 'Command Prompt'

                      You must run a command prompt with an administrator privileges. Then type in type convert /? to see the syntax for the convert command.



                      In this example, the drive letter is G: so command will be convert G: /FS:NTFS. The conversion of the drive will take a while depending on the size of the drive.


Reformat the Drive

                      This method is not that much complicated than the first method. You just have to right-click the drive and choose Format.


And then select NTFS in the file system drop-down.


Finish the format then copy your data back.

Without Formatting method:

                      I have not yet test this method. But they've said that this is working. Do this at your own risk. I have nothing to do if anything bad happens. If something happens, just read or question here Link: (http://www.tweakandtrick.com/2012/02/convert-fat32-to-ntfs-file-system.html). This link has nothing to do with me.

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