How To Convert a USB Drive From FAT32 to NTFS

what's up everybody in this video i'm going to show you how to convert your usb drive or your storage device from fat32 format into ntfs so for example if you plug in your usb device into your computer and then you right click on it and then you click on properties and right here you can see file system if it says fat32 and you need ntfs i'm gonna show you three different ways how to convert that so first way i'm going to show you if you right click on your device and then click on the format and right here at this window what you need to do you need to choose file system you need to choose ntfs and then we need to leave quick format check mark and then you can rename your drive you can name whatever you want and then click on start and then this is just going to tell you that all data will be lost and you need to click okay okay format is complete you click ok one more time and you can close this window and then if you right click on your usb drive click on properties and now you can see right here file system is ntfs so second way to do that we need to right click on this pc and then we need to click on manage and in here we need to click on disk management and in disk management we need to find our flash drive then we need to right click on it and then we need to click on format and then this window we can rename the drive same thing right here we need to choose a file system ntfs and then leave everything as default and then click ok and then okay one more time here that's it it's done and then you can close this window and once again you right click on it and you can see the file system is ntfs and the third way i'm going to show you how to do this using powershell and by using a third way none of your data will be deleted from your flash drive so for example if you have like a huge hard drive or a big thumb drive and you don't want to lose your data you can just convert and this is not going to format your drive so for example if we're going to open our usb drive and right here you can see i have document files saved to my thumb drive so here's what i need to do i need to right click on start and click on windows powershell admin or i can just click on start and type powershell and then right click on powershell and run as administrator right here we need to click yes and this window is going to come up so here's one thing what we need to do we need to verify letter drive and in here is letter f and then we can minimize this and then right here what we need to do we need to type following command convert space bar and then your letter drive minus f yours could be something else and then columns and then space forward slash fs columns and ntfs and then we need to press on enter once the process is complete you'll see conversion complete and now you can close this window and now we go back to our file explorer and if we right click on our flash drive and click on properties right here you can see the file system is ntfs and then if you open your flash drive you can see document file is still there if this video was helpful to you press that like button and don't forget to subscribe thanks for watching

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Length: 3min 45sec (225 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 05 2020