I am constantly amazed at how\u00a0many people believe the only way to change the storage option of a hard drive\u00a0from FAT or FAT32 to NTFS is by means of formatting the hard drive.<\/p>\n
the following \u00a0command line (DOS)\u00a0 should eliminate all those issues (execute (command shell) on any drive other than the drive being changed):<\/p>\n
CONVERT <volume<\/em>> \/FS:NTFS [\/V] [\/CvtArea:filename] [\/NoSecurity] [\/X] I am constantly amazed at how\u00a0many people believe the only way to change the storage option of a hard drive\u00a0from FAT or FAT32 to NTFS is by means of formatting the hard drive. the following \u00a0command line (DOS)\u00a0 should eliminate all those issues (execute (command shell) on any drive other than the drive being changed): […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[19,21,22,25],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-operating-system","tag-convert","tag-fat","tag-fat32","tag-ntfs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arturicast.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arturicast.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arturicast.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arturicast.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arturicast.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arturicast.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arturicast.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arturicast.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arturicast.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nvolume<\/em> Specifies the drive letter (followed by a colon), mount point, or volume name.
\n\/FS:NTFS\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Specifies that the volume will be converted to NTFS.
\n\/V\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Specifies that Convert will be run in verbose mode.
\n\/CvtArea:filename Specifies a contiguous file in the root directory
\nthat will be the place holder for NTFS system files.
\n\/NoSecurity Specifies that the security settings on the converted
\nfiles and directories allow access by all users.
\n\/X\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Forces the volume to dismount first if necessary.\u00a0All open handles to the volume will not be valid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"