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Convert fat to ntfs file system

  • Windows operating system enjoys the most computer users which mainly supports two file management systems, FAT and NTFS. FAT, short for File Allocation Table, developed and partly owned by Microsoft, is provided for use of MS-DOS and is the file system utilized by all non-NT based operating systems. Considering the limited performance of computer at that time, FAT file system is not complicated and supports almost all operating systems. NTFS is a standard file system for Windows NT and the subsequent Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista and Windows 7. NTFS, since its release, has replaced FAT file system to be the best file system available, offering file system for Windows operating systems. Compared with FAT, NTFS has more comprehensive performances, enjoy the most popularity among file systems. Therefore, many FAT users want to convert the FAT to enhanced NTFS which however is beyond the capability of the system build-in disk management tool. Then a third-party partition manager is required to convert FAT to NTFS file system or perform other partition operations such as wipe partition, resize partition, merge partition, create partition, delete partition, format partition, copy partition, etc. Here I would like to recommend user an excellent partition manager - MiniTool Partition Wizard.

    MiniTool Partition Wizard
    MiniTool Partition Wizard is developed by MiniTool Solution Ltd. which runs perfectly under 32/64 bit family, professional and enterprise operating system like Windows Server 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, etc. Moreover, MiniTool Partition Wizard offers power-off data protection functions to secure data safety.

    Convert FAT to NTFS with MiniTool Partition Wizard
    To convert FAT to NTFS, user should first download MiniTool Partition Wizard at MiniTool Partition Wizard Download Center and install it to computer.
    Then user would come to following interface after running MiniTool Partition Wizard.



    This is the initialization interface.



    Now select a desired FAT partition and click "Convert FAT to NTFS" at the left toolbar.



    Click start to convert and click "Close" when information of successfully converting file system emerges.



    Now user could notice the previous FAT partition has been converted to NTFS.


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