converting to NTFS

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hi,

i 've got a new xternal hd with a capacity of 500 gig.
it's formatted in fat32, and i already have about 40 gig's
on it.

1. is it safe to convert it to NTFS using 'convert' from the
command prompt, and will the data remain untouched?

2. is it necessary to run 'fsutil file createnew ' from the com prompt
first? and what does it do?

regards,

m


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