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    How to covert fat32 to ntfs on my portable HDD?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Evil Eye, Oct 28, 2008.

  1. Evil Eye

    Evil Eye Notebook Consultant

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    Hi guys, i have WD 250GB portable HDD and have 120gigs of data on it...
    I forgot to format it to ntfs file system when i first bought it, and now i can't format it as i have important data on it... Also my laptop's hard disk is 70percent full so i cannot backup all my data on it...

    How can i convert the file system from fat32 to ntfs without loosing the data? Is it possible?

    Thanks in advance!
     
    Evil Eye, Oct 28, 2008
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    Lithus NBR Janitor

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    Evil Eye Notebook Consultant

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    @lithus thanks man. How much time does it take via the convert method?
     
    Evil Eye, Oct 28, 2008
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    it depends on the size of the HDD :D also remember this most of the time Data in it is perfectly safe but do take a backup as a precaution :D
     
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    Well i have, 120gigs of data and core2duo t7100 processor... Hope this does not take ages...
     
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    thanks a lot guys, i successfully converted FS from fat32 to ntfs by convert method without any data loss :)

    thanks a ton! :)
     
    Evil Eye, Oct 28, 2008
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    and yeah it took less than a minute to convert itself :D
     
    Evil Eye, Oct 28, 2008
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