Re: How safe is the "convert" command?
- From: Bruce Chambers <bchambers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:06:09 -0600
Robert S wrote:
I'd like to convert a 300G Maxtor OneTouch drive from FAT32 to NTFS. Because of the amount of data that I've got it would be very inconvenient to have to back this drive up. Is it reasonably safe to use the "convert" command on this disk? I've done a practice run on another drive on my PC without any problems.
BTW I don't have any life-or-death commercial data on this drive.
You can safely convert your current hard drive to NTFS whenever desired, without having to format the partition and reinstall everything. As always when performing any serious changes, back up any important data before proceeding, just in case. A little advance preparation is also strongly recommended, so you can avoid any performance hits caused by the default cluster size:
Converting FAT32 to NTFS in Windows
http://www.aumha.org/a/ntfscvt.htm
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