Saturday, November 7, 2009

How to Convert between FAT32 & NTFS in Windows XP

FAT32 & NTFS, for those its greek, are two popular file systems available in windows. For those who are curious let me give a simple overview of both of them:
NTFS provides:
  • advanced security using access control lists
  • Provides file & directory compression for storing more data
  • Encryption
  • Quotas
  • Robustness
  •             So now if you are allured to convert your files to NTFS , is there a way? Yes sir. there is.
  •                                Open Command Prompt.
  •                                Click Start, point to All Programs,
  •                                Point to Accessories
  •                                Click Command Prompt
  •                                 In the command prompt window, type: convert drive_letter: /fs:ntfs
                     For example, typing convert D: /fs:ntfs would format drive D: from FAT to NTFS.

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