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Comment from khaja on 2012-01-31

2012-01-31T09:23:10Z

i have same problem as sirisha and karthik,, i have 32gb Kingston pendrive,,its file system is Fat32.my computer is Ntfs file format.file was disappear from pen drive.i use all methods to convert it.but there is no use,please help me Sir

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Comment from tong on 2011-12-24

2011-12-24T12:35:51Z

Hello Leo!
When I convert a driver from FAT32 to NTFS, it raised error as below, can you suggest me how to fix it. both D: driver and E: driver (still has much free space) are failed in converting.

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>convert d: /fs:ntfs
The type of the file system is FAT32.
Enter current volume label for drive D: setups
Volume SETUPS created 4/9/2008 4:12 PM
Volume Serial Number is BC11-F309
Windows is verifying files and folders...
File and folder verification is complete.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.
24,366,688 KB total disk space.
1,971,104 KB in 103 hidden files.
1,232 KB in 77 folders.
2,698,944 KB in 954 files.
19,695,392 KB are available.

16,384 bytes in each allocation unit.
1,522,918 total allocation units on disk.
1,230,962 allocation units available on disk.

Determining disk space required for file system conversion...
The conversion failed.
D: was not converted to NTFS

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>

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Comment from Karthik on 2011-02-26

2011-02-26T10:31:16Z

Mr. Leo, i followed your instructions to convert my transcend 2gb thumb drive from FAT32 to NTFS. i found a small amount of space loss in the thumb drive (about 0.3gb) is it common?

Quite possibly, yes. NTFS does incurr a little bit over overhead, but does end up using the drive more efficiently in the long run.

26-Feb-2011

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Comment from Sibila on 2011-02-02

2011-02-02T08:51:39Z

Hello Leo,

Thank you for keeping such an informative source of solutions and explanations of all these mysterious computer tricks. Here is my question:

I have a 2TB external hard drive which was factory-formatted as FAT32. I need to store large files on it (videos), and discovered after storing data on almost 3/4 of its capacity that it needs to be converted to NTFS if I am to store anything larger than 4 GB on it. So I attempted to convert it using the convert.exe utility. I got the following error message: "Cannot create the elementary file system structures." What do I do? I was hoping to avoid moving all that data elsewhere in order to reformat the volume. Is there any hope the disk can be converted with all my data left in place? Thank you,

Sibila

From what I quickly looked at, in your shoes I would try removing SOME of the data and trying again. It may be an issue of not having enough free space for the conversion.

02-Feb-2011

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Comment from shirish on 2010-01-14

2010-01-14T15:54:08Z

this is what i got when i tried to convert my transcend 64gb flash drive from fat 32 to ntfs.

Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.
65,527,968 KB total disk space.
608 KB in 5 hidden files.
716,512 KB in 2 files.
64,810,816 KB are available.

32,768 bytes in each allocation unit.
2,047,749 total allocation units on disk.
2,025,338 allocation units available on disk.

Determining disk space required for file system conversion..
Total disk space: 65536000 KB
Free space on volume: 64810816 KB
Space required for conversion: 133272 KB
Cannot create the elementary file system structures.
The conversion failed.
G: was not converted to NTFS

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Comment from suman das on 2010-01-10

2010-01-11T02:21:28Z

SIR, MY ELDER BROTHER CONVERTED MY HARD DISK DRIVE FAT32 TO NTFS IN ABSENCE OF MINE I CANT OPEN LOCAL
DRIVE IN A DOUBLE CLICK PLEASE TELL ME WHAT CAN I DO NEXT

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Comment from Eric on 2009-08-21

2009-08-22T02:11:54Z

Hi. Remember me (how to keep landlord and tenant separated from each other on the same network)?

This is a little off topic, but you mentioned CHKDSK, so... I do START - Run - cmd - chkdsk /f. Every time I do this, it states that it "cannot lock current drive" and then do you want to run after reboot (or something like that). I always answer Y and that does the trick, except the final results disappear in about half a second and then boot up completes. Is there a way to do chkdsk without restarting? I have not tried booting up into DOS. ERIC

I believe it shows up in a file bootex.log in the root of your drive, and/or in the event viewer's application log. Unfortunately, no, you must reboor to run chkdsk on the system drive.

22-Aug-2009

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Comment from confused on 2009-06-17

2009-06-18T02:51:54Z

so what does it take to convert my c drive with the operating system and all my files on it from fat32 to ntfs ?

thanks

Just follow the instructions in the article.

- Leo
17-Jun-2009

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Comment from TV on 2009-05-14

2009-05-14T17:19:26Z

When I try to convert my D drive to NTFS it asks me for the "Current Volume Label for Drive D". Is there an easy way to get this?
Thanks

Yep. Check out this article: What's a Volume Name?

- Leo
15-May-2009

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Comment from felicity on 2008-12-16

2008-12-16T14:21:35Z

Hi!
I REALLY HAVE TO COMMENT ON YOUR EFFORT ON THE ONLINE PROGRAM, ITS REALLY EDUCATING I MUST CONFESS THAT.

THEN, THERE IS THIS SYSTEM THAT IS FED UP WITH FILES IN THE HARD DISK BUT WAS PASS WORDED, AND THERE IS NO WAY ONE CAN GET TO THE FILES WITHOUT PASSING THROUGH THE PASS WORD.

OR IS THERE ANY OTHER WAY?

IF THERE IS, THEN HOW?

ADVICE ME PLEASE BEFORE I MAKE A MISTAKE

THANKS

FELICITY

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Comment from shankar on 2008-12-12

2008-12-13T01:21:29Z

FAT32 file system can be used for running MSDOS programmes. Can we in NTFS? If so, how and in not why?

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Comment from Mark on 2008-12-09

2008-12-10T00:51:53Z

I recently acquired a computer with XP and a FAT32 file system. I thought I was stuck with it until I found out it was just a simple command conversion - easy! :)

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