Note Although the chance of corruption or data loss during the conversion is minimal, we recommend that you perform a backup of the data on the volume that you want to convert before you start the conversion.
To convert an existing FAT or FAT32 volume to NTFS, follow these steps:
For example, type the following command to convert drive E to NTFS: convert e: /fs:ntfs
Note If the operating system is on the drive that you are converting, you will be prompted to schedule the task when you restart the computer because the conversion cannot be completed while the operating system is running. When you are prompted, click YES.
Enter the current volume label for drive drive letter
Windows 2000 supports FAT16, FAT32, and NTFS partitions.
The original 16-bit version of the FAT file system (FAT16) supported hard disk partitions up to 4GB and files as large as 2GB.
Windows XP only recognizes FAT16, FAT32, and NTFS partitions. If it is not one of these (such as ext3 or ReiserFS), it will report it as an "unknown partition."
The primary features of Norton Partition Magic are it's ability to re-size partitions of various formats, merge adjacent partitions and modify the cluster size of FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS paritions, all without loss of data.
Do you wish to enable large disk support (Y/N)? If you respond Y then Fdisk assigns the FAT32 file system to the drive. Otherwise, it uses FAT16.
Depending on the release version, FAt12, FAT16, and FAT32 are all possible out of the box. Additional software exists for reading NTFS or ext2 partitions, but you cannot boot from them.
Fat16 and Fat32
Sadly, no. Win 3.1 needs a FAT16 formatted drive which has a limit of 2.1GB per partition. In order to use the all of the space, a larger drive would have to be broken up into 2.1GB partitions.
There is no limit on the size of a hard driveformatted with FAT16. The only limit is the size of a FAT16 partition on the drive. The maximum size of a FAT16 partition is 4 GB.
Almost never. FAT16 restricts the possible file name length to only 8 characters, and doesn't support more than 2 GB maximum. FAT32 supports far larger drives and partitions. There is a slight performance overhead, but if the system can't handle the overhead tolerably, it shouldn't be running Windows 98 anyway.
If you have a card reader on your computer, then when you insert the SD card, you can format it. Note: FAT16 has a volume limit of 2 gigabytes, so if your card is bigger than 2 gigs, FAT16 will not be an option for the formatting.
FAT16