When the data is stored in a storage device, it is followed by a specific file system. The storage device means, it can be a hard disk or it can be a flash drive. The method of keeping data of these storage devices, changes based on the file system. As such, using the FAT32 file system data will store in different manner, again using the NTFS file system data will be stored in different way. Each file system's data saving process are differs. It means that, there is no match with any file system.
A storage device that supports file systems can only read data from that file systems, others can not. For example, the device that supports the NTFS file system, can only access files using NTFS and cannot read any file using the FAT32 file system.
Because of that, sometimes we need to change our file system. Normally we can change the file system while we format the storage device. Some of the most commonly used file systems are FAT32, NTFS, exFAT, and EXT4.
But now, to change the file system, if we need to format the storage device, then we will lose the data on our storage device. Because all data will be deleted as soon as you format.
In this article we will discuss, how we can change the file system of a storage device without formatting. There are many third party software to do this. But here, we will use DOS command of windows to change the file system of a storage device.
We can convert the file system without losing any data using the following command:-
convert c: /fs:ntfs
Here "C" is represented as drive letter. If our drive letter is "E", then our command will be:-
convert e: /fs:ntfs
We will execute this command from the command prompt. Below is a screenshot given:-
To avoid undesirable error, it is better to open the command prompt with administrative privileges. For this, just right click on command prompt and click on "Run as Administrator."
Using this method, can only be converted from the FAT32 file system to the NTFS file system.
Good Luck.
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