How To Change FAT, FAT32 To NTFS Without Formatting Drive

This tutorial will guide you on how to convert FAT, FAT32 to NTFS system file type.

You don’t need to install a program to change the filetype from FAT32 to NTFS.

Procedure:

1. Press the Start button.
2. Type in "cmd" without the quotes, press Enter.
3. after opening cmd go to "My Computer", and see the name of the letter that stands in from of the drive you want to convert!
4. once you knew your drive letter go back to cmd, Press in "CONVERT X: /FS:NTFS" (without the quotes). The X is for the letter your system drive, or external drive name. (see Step 5)
5. Your drive is now converted. Enjoy!
6. But if there is a prompt like this: ‘convert lost chains top files Y/N?‘ press ‘y‘ and continue.
cmd will now check the file system and the rest. If your cmd finishes, your file system is converted to NTFS. You can close down cmd. (If you want to check if it really did finished, go to ‘My Computer’ and right click on the drive, select ‘Properties’ to see what kind of file system it has).
7. If cmd says: ‘X: was not converted to NFTS, the conversion failed etc, you must follow the next steps!
8. As you can see above, the cmd failed the first time. Next solution.
9. Sa cmd again, Type in "chkdsk X: /f", where X is the letter of your drive. Wait a while to finish.
10. You’ll be asked to ‘convert lost chains top files Y/N?‘ press ‘y‘ and continue. Wait for it to finish.
11. After this, cmd will say that converting was successful. Check it by going to your computer, and single click on the drive to see what kind of file system your drive has.