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Convert fat32 ntfs xp

  • As one of the prevailing operating systems, Windows XP enjoys a wide range of costumers, as seems likely, including you. Under Windows XP, FAT32 and NTFS are the most common file system, but which is better or which is more suitable for Windows XP? User may have noticed that people are casting higher and higher requirement upon disk management as well as the safety performance of disk management. During this process, the defects of FAT were gradually unveiled and NTFS proved to be the best file system for Windows XP. As a result, an increasing number of users are hoping to convert FAT32 to NTFS for XP. To realize this operation, I would like to recommend user an excellent partition magic software, MiniTool Partition Wizard.

    Convert FAT32 to NTFS with DOS Command under Windows XP
    There are two ways to convert FAT32 to NTFS under Windows XP:
    1. Convert FAT32 to NTFS by formatting FAT32 partition. But note that the formatted partition data will also get formatted and user should backup partition first before performing formatting, which is a really complicated job.
    2. Windows XP provides DOS environment and user could convert FAT32 to NTFS via DOS Command: click Start – Regedit – enter cmd – press Enter – enter "convert volume /FS:NTFS", then press Enter to restart computer. Thus, FAT32 file system would be successfully converted to NTFS. This method is feasible, but user should ensure that no power failure or hardware error would happen, or the partition would be damaged.

    Knowing the above-mentioned knowledge, user would know the design on Windows XP on converting FAT32 to NTFS is far from being considerate. Therefore, the best solution for user to convert FAT32 to NTFS is employing MiniTool Partition Wizard, the powerful partition magic software with various disk management functions.

    Convert FAT32 to NTFS with MiniTool Partition Wizard
    First, please download MiniTool Partition Wizard at our official website http://www. partitionwizard.com for free and then install it.
    Launch MiniTool Partition Wizard to meet the following interface:



    Select and right click the needed FAT32 partition, then click "Convert FAT to NTFS" to enter next interface.



    Click "Start" to convert FAT32 to NTFS. After conversion, please click "Close".



    Now, user can clearly see that the previous FAT32 partition has been successfully converted to NTFS.