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Can NTFS be converted to FAT32?

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15y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Microsoft does not have an official tool for this, but some third-party applications are capable of this. They basically just copy files of the NTFS partition, delete it, create a new FAT32 partition, and then copy the files back.

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