The FAT32 filesystem (introduced with Windows 98) have now been far outnumbered by those of type NTFS : filesystem type is essential because it determines how files are named, saved and organized within a disk. In particular filesystem NTFS (New Technology File System) offer many innovative features such as better management of available space, the ability to store files large-sized, with some flexibility to manage file permissions and folders and protect and encrypt the data so as to limit access to unauthorized users. Also NTFS offers better security-level data integrity : If the system crashes it always generates a log that allows Windows, in most cases, to restore the situation without loss of information.
the picture below you can see the difference in terms of management of space on a 300GB external drive: after the conversion from FAT32 to NTFS you have a gain of 12GB !
But sometimes it can happen, especially with external USB hard drives, you have partitions with the FAT32 file system formatted by default as is already full of data stored Fortunately, this is not a problem because there is a possibility to convert a FAT32 partition to NTFS manera simple, without losing any data stored .
The conversion procedure is as follows:
- Identify the letter of the drive to convert FAT32 to NTFS (in our example we will assume it is the hard chge " F: )
- Open a command prompt: Start => Run => cmd.exe
- At the prompt, type (without quotes):
" vol F: "
delivery dates to see the name given to the FAT32 partition to convert - In prompt, type (without quotes):
" convert F: / fs: ntfs "
dates Submission: enter the volume name to convert (you have already achieved in the preceding paragraph) and then sending back dates. Note that the conversion process may take up to several hours.
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