Converting FAT32 to NTFS

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I have a 500gb drive and i want to convert it to NTFS, Windows7 help says the conversion doesnt affect data but i want to check. Has anyone had any issues with doing this? I have backups of my photos that are on the drive to be done but would like to make the conversion as simple as poss.
 
You will have to remove your images, right click the drive in my computer go down to format, click and it should format NTFS by default, if not it will ask you.

Then reload your images to the drive..
 
Should have no problems at all

Go to a command prompt and type

Convert x /FS:NTFS

Where x is the drive you want to convert. Make sure you have the spaces.

If not sure at the command prompt type CONVERT /? and hit enter

You don't have to reformat the drive or take anything off
 
The usual way is to make sure you have backups and then format the complete disk to NTFS.

Windows 7 is very good and I've increased a partition on a drive sucessfully, something that couldn't be done before so it might be that W7 will be able to do this for you without wiping the drive.

If you have backups what have you to lose?
 
you do not need to format.

youll need to load up a command prompt as administrator (type "cmd" into the start button search, right click command prompt and select run as administrator) and run the command:

convert x: /fs:ntfs

(where x: is the drive letter of the drive to convert)

in many many years i have never lost data doing this, it would probably be reassuring to have a backup copy however.
 
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Thanks for the replies chap, the command prompt route is what i'd rewad about and i was looking for reassurance/confirmation that data would be lost.
Cheers.
 
Whilst you might not need to back up the data before you convert it, you'd be mad not to IMHO!
 
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