1. Click Start > All Programs > Accessories, and then click Command Prompt.(or start > Run >type "cmd"
2. At the command prompt, type the following, where drive letter is the drive that you want to convert:
convert drive letter: /fs:ntfs
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.
3. When you receive the following message at the command prompt, type the volume label of the drive that you are converting, and then press ENTER:
The type of the file system is FAT.
Enter the current volume label for drive drive letter
4. When the conversion to NTFS is complete, you receive the following message at the command prompt:
Conversion complete
5. Quit the command prompt.
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FAT32 does not support compression of filesor folders
FAT32 uses a 32-bit unsigned integer to store the file size, and thus limits each file to 232-1 bytes in size.
Windows 95 OSR2, Windows 98, and Windows Me include an updated version of the FAT file system. This updated version is called FAT32. The FAT32 file system allows for a default cluster size as small as 4 KB, and includes support for EIDE hard disk sizes larger than 2 gigabytes
no it can also use FAT32 or FAT16
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yes But conversion from NTFS to FAT32 is not possible. One has to delete the partition and recreate FAT32 partition . Data will be lost in the process.
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You would need to delete the partition and create a new one in its place; there is no standardized way of converting NTFS to FAT32. Several tools can be used to do this. cfdisk from the command line, or GParted graphically are probably the best options.
Probably not. There is a decent chance of corruption / data loss. it is better to back up your files, delete the partition, and create a new NTFS partition instead. ---------- Depends. It's recommended that you back up any important data on the disk. The down fall with FAT32 and NTFS is that FAT32 cannot interpret anything larger than 32GiB Volumes on the Hard Disk. FAT32 Volumes are becoming the primitive Format. However, older machines which use obsolete hardware won't be able to understand the NTFS Structured Volumes. xyr0x
Windows 98 can be installed on a FAT16 or FAT32 partition (FAT32 is the best choice for disks larger than 512 MB, and supports long file names better).
Because to convert a drive, you must a working partition, like Fat32, RAW however is a dead partition, messes up the sectors which converting cannot reverse.
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.
NTFS prevents changes from unauthorized users and prevents them from reading data from a computer. Where as FAT32 does not
This table of information contained is,the table tells BIOS how many Partion the drive has and how each parition is divied into one or mone logical drivers and which partion contains the drive to be used for booting called the active boot and where each logical dive begins and ends